There Cannot Be Capitalism Without A State (And Vice Versa)

If you want agriculture, you first need to find an arable piece of land. If there are creatures on it, they will need to be killed or removed. Swiftly now; it is your right.

To effectively work (exploit) the Earth, you need metals.

If you want metals, you have to have a mine. If you have a mine, you have to hire security to keep poor people away from it and to keep workers from stealing from it. (Look around; the police stand in front of everything somebody needs.) Mining is miserable work, but don't worry; employees will be abundant since, after destroying their way of life via agriculture and domestication, they will have no choice but to work in the mine. Bosses will keep them in line. Hierarchies develop. This is the way it should be. Plus, in a few generations, the workers will forget that they were once independent and call their current situation, "just the way it is".

Agriculture means more food at first, so more people will have children. That means more agriculture, which means more metals. More smelters. More security. More houses built. Take more land to build those houses. Kill off nature or animals on the surrounding lands. Cut down the trees. Clearing the forests requires more metal. More mining. More workers. More expansion. More force. (If the people on the land with the resources you need continue to resist, you'll have to "convince" them.)

More resources now available means more babies, which means people spread out, which requires more transportation, which needs more infrastructure. That requires more metal. More workers to do miserable work. More security to guard the infrastructure, agriculture, smelters, property and mines. More exploitaiton of nature. More death. (Just don't kill each other and there is no problem.)

Eventually you will run into more people and animals who don't want to give up their land. They will fight back. You now need an army. That means taxes. Tell the people it is for their own good. You will need politicians to convince them. Politicians are your friends. They look out for you. Without them, your enemies would destroy you.

You need to create fictional justifications of why people are better off domesticated under the new agriculture system. Call it "progress" and demonize the ancestors who lived under the old way. (You don't want anyone not dependent. That would threaten your new, better, deserved way of life.) You'll need the leaders to repeat this over and over again until people believe it. Tell all the children. Get them young. They are the future. This way is the best way.

Tell the workers that they only have to be nice to each other. Don't aggress. Follow the rules and you'll get ahead. Nature is not special like us. It is here for us to use. The children are starting to agree. They will tell their children.

While taking what is yours, you will encouter rough terrain. You need technology--chainsaws, ploughs, etc. More comes out of the Earth. The humans living on the land with the needed resources don't want to give it up. Send in the military. Create propaganda to justify it. More leaders emerge to tell the new generations that this is the way it should be. They hire more enforcers to keep people in line. Without that security, the system breaks down. This is normal. It is for your own good.

More layers of control develop. People spread farther out. We need regional leaders. We need more land. More resources. That means more workers. The workers are now hopelessly dependent on the system that exploits them. Any that speak out need to be dealt with. That requires police, plus leaders to tell everyone that it is all okay. "Nothing to see here. Move along. Keep your head down and keep quiet. You can't make a difference anyway."

The military makes capitalism possible. Without their guns, we wouldn't be able to get or transport the raw materials to make stuff that makes our way of life possible. Capitalism is the best way--the only way. We wouldn't want to go back to how those "savages" lived, would we? The ones who created technology to preserve their land instead of destroying it? That would be ridiculous. After all, then we wouldn't have smart phones, indoor plumbing or fast food available twenty-four hours per day. And everybody knows that is the only way to live. The leaders told me so.

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