The world capitalist system requires a false peace as well as huge military apparatus to control resistance and rebellion in the Third World. Capitalism replaces the meaning of democracy from full participation at work and in other important life activities with the narrow act of voting for preselected candidates once every two or four years. White collar crime increases as the middle classes come to realize the need for a portfolio for their senior years, as they come to realize the futility of serving the corporation, and as they come to face life crises and false needs beyond even their extensive resources. Political crime increases as capitalism tries to control workers and peasants in the Third World as well as dissent and the impetus for social justice at home. Capitalism dumps unsafe products in the Third World when they cannot be sold in advanced capitalist countries.
Capitalism crushes small business and drives the small farmer off the land.
Wealth and the means of production come to be concentrated in fewer and fewer owners even as personal, consumer goods accumulate among the upper working class. Capitalism has converted the university into the unpaid servant of the corporation while subverting its capacity to provide the authentic self knowledge for critique, change and renewal. Capitalism buys or rents the means to produce meaning from the mass media in order to serve the information and political needs of private ownership for ideological hegemony, the realization of profit, the pre-selection of political candidates and for opposition to workers struggles at home or abroad. Capitalism creates masses of chronically ill and chronically anxious workers and women then pushes drugs, sports and religion as escape rather than as enlivening. Capitalism cannot provide profits to its owner unless it has parallel economic systems to which to obtain resources and to which to transfer its costs.