ABSTRACT
Capitalism creates poverty in various ways including by exploiting and over-exploiting workers, by making workers redundant through profit-seeking technical changes, and by dispossessing small-scale producers. An aspect of the resurgence of Marxist research is the immense popularity of Marxist dialectics as a holistic way of looking at the capitalist world, in terms of its unity as well as difference, from the standpoint of radically changing it. The problems caused by capitalism, and globalizing capitalism, are everywhere. The institutions of the state are more or less direct 'instruments' of property-owners, including those whose main object is to subject natural resources and working people to cruel forms of commodification and ruthless forms of exploitation, all in the name of development and dollars. A culture that accurately reflects the interest and ideas of the majority of the people is a most democratic process to promote.
