So, why does a system apparently based on the idea of individual profit result in such a deadening of the individual?
1) capitalism produces a hierarchical system which crushes self-government in many areas of life; 2) there is the lack of community which does not provide the necessary supports for the encouragement of individuality; 3) there is the psychological impact of “individual profit” when it becomes identified purely with monetary gain (as in capitalism); 4) the effects of competition in creating conformity and mindless obedience to authority. We have discussed point one on many occasions (see sections B.1 and B.4). As Emma Goldman put it, under capitalism, the individual “must sell his [or her] labour” and so their “inclination and judgement are subordinated to the will of a master.” This, naturally, represses individual initiative and the skills needed to know and express ones own mind (as she put it, this “condemns millions of people to be mere nonentities, living corpses without originality or power of initiative . . . who pile up mountains of wealth for others and pay for it with a grey,
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