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. The family, women, minorities, the state, and weaker economies in the Third World absorb much of the costs of capitalism. The power of the state to police is turned from the necessary repression of activity harmful to the human process and the environment to the unnecessary repression of workers, minorities and emancipatory activity.
Capitalism begins with an exploitation of labor of workers.