Module Two: Initial Discussion PostHello Everyone,Marx believed that under capitalism “workers are no longer able to produce forthemselves what they need to live” (Mumby, 2013). Furthermore, he believed that capitalism was“the only system of economic production in which the very foundation of the system is not tomake goods in order to produce even more goods but, rather, to turn money into even moremoney” (Mumby, 2013). He even criticized the exploitative nature of capitalism, stating that “thelabor of the worker produces more value than that at which it is purchased” (Mumby, 2013).Given this assessment, Marx believed that in advanced capitalists countries, revolution wasinevitable. However, despite its exploitative nature and numerous drawbacks, capitalismcontinues to be the dominant economic system.The main problem with Marx’s assessment was that he was unable to predict all thereforms capitalism would undergo over the coming century. Capitalism adapted and changedwith the times, and “despite a number of crises, including the Depression of the 1930s,capitalism continued to be the dominant economic system” (Mumby, 2013). As a result, I find
