Capitalism leads to exploitation of workers, which promotes inequality. Poverty is due to weakness in societal institutions.
Capitalism creates poverty and inequality.
Surplus Value difference between value workers create through labor and value of wages they receive. The Hindu caste system is justified by saying that lower caste people have bad karma. False Consciousness when people attribute their lower status to luck or the will of God or bad karma. When people suffer from false consciousness they accept their lower position in society. Class Consciousness when people begin to protest their lower status in society and start to gain equal access to societal resources.