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In reply to the discussion: We Need A Class Consciousness Revival [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)is a good way to put it. Marx would call it the dictatorship of capital, but it means the same thing. Yes, the US Constitutional system WAS set up to protect the property of the people who "owned" that property and who passed it on to their descendants through capitalist property relations, i.e., inheritance. Thus, it IS undemocratic at its core.
But one thing that most forget is that society doesn't matter to capitalism except as a means to protect their ownership of the means of production and their property. And that it's all based on profit. Even those protections are based on profit. Nothing else in society matters. Capitalism isn't concerned with society, only with profit and the PROTECTION of that profit. Anything else is WAY secondary to profit. Those are the rules of the system.