Political Consequences

David Levine

Chapter 5 in Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit: An Essay on Greed, Hope, and Loss, 2013, pp 67-87 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There is a tension between the spirit of capitalism and regulating what individuals can do with their wealth. Further, so far as regulation is meant to lessen the impact of losing on life chances, it reduces or eliminates the experience of loss that is so much a part of the purpose of the capitalist process. Finally, intolerance of regulation and authority results when we substitute fantasy for reason (our connection to external reality) as the basis for conduct and relating, a substitution implied in the disease of the infinite. Among the factors promoting this substitution, two are of special importance: the connection between self-interest and greed, and the dominance of fixed ideas rooted not in interests, but in myth and fantasy, a factor also linked to greed.

Keywords: Birth Control; Sexual Desire; Rational Calculation; Public Life; Political Consequence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137346797_6

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