For adults abused as children, one of the most important elements of the therapeutic process is learning to blame the perpetrators of the abuse, rather than blaming themselves. Usually, they are encouraged to behave in a way which will ensure that the ruling classes remain in power. Hence, American popular capitalist culture encourages its participants to buy and sell commodities. In the ideology of capitalism, buying and selling commodities should make everyone happy and everyone equally prosperous. However, it is clear that not everyone is satisfied with the way capitalist culture arranges material reality.
Some people are very wealthy, but many people are very poor.
Although they work, or try to work, they have inadequate housing, food and health care. Those who are poor have been told all their lives that if they cannot become prosperous, it is their fault. One of this century's most popular presidents, Ronald Reagan, believed that poor people chose to be poor because they were inherently lazy. He used this kind of reasoning to justify massive cuts in welfare and health services for the unemployed or those with low income. But as the Marxist tradition teaches us, it is not the poor, but capitalism and capitalists which create poverty and unemployment.