TR3.5

Brands Reading

Huxley Marvit 2022-01-11 Tue 17:41

Table of Contents

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1 Brands!

  • a text like the declaration of indipendance in the sense of the influence it exerted over the american populace
    • wealth of nations, adam smith
  • (WoN -> capatalism) = (DoI -> democracry)
    • natural law vs. self interest
  • ofc, takes time to grow
    • america is where they have grown best, forming the archetypal democratic democracy
  • "yet the dual manifestos of 1776 were also dueling manifestos."

    • argues, democracy depends on euqality, whereas capitalism depends on inequality
      • uh…
  • inequality is a nessesity for capatalism, not merely a byproduct
  • tension between democracy and capatalism -> characterized america
  • argues, andrew jackson embodied democracy
  • but capatalism fought back in the civil war
  • money: the philosiphers stone of modern capitalism
    • so morgan was important!
      • created the capitalist revolution?
  • effects:
    • courts reinterpeted the constituion in capitalisms favor
    • created inequality
  • "by the century's end the imperatives of capitalism mattered more to the daily existence of most americans than the principles of democracy."