so we have this vast inequality of wealth, where we have dozens of
individuals whose wealth is equal to half the entire planet earth…
so, how do we justify that vast accumulation of wealth by a few individuals?
Under the old rules, that wealth was justified by the “righteousness” of
the individual in question… they were favored by god…as the king
or monarch was also favored by god…but as Nietzsche as written,
god is dead…so now, how do we justify the accumulation of wealth based
natural, none metaphysical grounds?
we declare them the ‘‘winners’’ by the impersonal forces of Capitalism…
as if capitalism were some kind of objective test of our
worthiness or the ‘‘righteousness’’ of our soul…
but the fact is that capitalism is not objective in any sense of the
word…let us look at the very first principle of capitalism…
the pursuit of money/wealth for its own value…this very act
devalues, dehumanizes human beings and their values…
for we are to seek wealth/money over human values like love,
hope, justice, peace to name just a few values that are devalued
in the search for wealth/money…
to accept that devaluation of human values to seek wealth is
by its very definition, nihilism…to accept the seeking
of wealth over the pursuit of human values such as love, justice for example,
is nihilism…
hence our modern day pursuit of wealth over human values makes
modern day society… a nihilistic society…
if our modern day state/society is nihilistic, how can we then
justify the accumulation of wealth?
we can’t…
now what?
Kropotkin