You must already be familiar with the definition of revolution and capitalism. However let’s just go through it again just so that you can understand the depth of the topic. Revolution can be defined as a tool, and make that an effective one, that has enough power to bring about economic, social and political changes. Capitalism, on the other hand, is also related to economic, political and social or cultural aspects of the society. Hence, capitalism is a political, cultural and economic system that is followed by a lot of countries in the world.
Now, revolution can be of two types. The first type is the revolution that was inspired by Karl Marx and carried out by the workers. At present this revolution cannot put an end to capitalism because of the complexities involved, i.e. complexity relating to Marxism, to internal problems faced by the revolutionary leaders, corrupt leadership that is prevailing, lack of expertise to deal with capitalism, etc. Right now, the capitalism that is installed is so massive and enormous in cultural proportion or political and socio-economic proportion that the revolution cannot match up to it.
It is very clear that there once existed an era where this type of revolution could prove better against capitalism; however, it was apparently not successful. Yet, there lies a question, with the dominance of capitalism over the economic, social and political structures of many countries, can one still claim that this revolution could end it?
Next, the second type of revolution. Now, you have to understand that this revolution is hypothetical in nature and is inspired by capitalists. Here the people simply wait for capitalists to change their attitude, i.e. the political and economic attitude of these capitalists towards the society.
In order to end capitalism, the power lies solely with the capitalists themselves. No other revolution can put an end to it or is even capable of challenging it because of its hugely blown-up proportions. Hence, the capitalists themselves must start an internal revolution. This revolution should be aimed at putting an end to the monopolistic control over the different means of production such as land, labour, capital, etc.
Now, let us imagine a situation where the capitalists have successfully launched a revolution that ended capitalism. This, however, is not a one time problem, it can definitely surge up again in the near future. This is because the capitalists run capitalism, the workers oppose the capitalists and the labour is run by these workers. Hence its all sort of interconnected.
The capitalism here can be logically described as the brain of the body and the labour opposing it, the body. It is pretty much a win-win situation for the brain or the capitalists because the brain is the most important part of the body and even if the body were to take over, it would cause a case of backwardness.
In conclusion it can be said that, as of now, capitalism remains an efficient social ruling system and there is no sight of its removal just yet.
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