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Hannah Arendt’s ”The Origins of Totalitarianism” (Part 3/6)

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The Capitalist Economy - The Survival of the Fittest

Hannah arent says that a political system that only cares for private property cannot possibly proceed toward anything but the final destruction of all property. With this and with the capitalist economyn generally, there is an underlying idea about the survival of the fittest. This very evolutionary approach to the economy gave people who felt like they were outcasts justification for their hatred of those within it. And as the system is predicated upon aa, directionless expansion, it only produces more and more outcasts.

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