#+title: Marx's analysis in Capital Vol. 1 is POSIWID

In [[file:literature/20200611201816-capital.org][Capital Vol. 1]], [[file:20200611202011-marx.org][Marx]] primarily critiques [[file:capitalism.org][capitalism]] and capitalist ideology.
He critiques a whole host of apologists for capitalism as well as those who
simply frame the argument. Marx's analysis is very much a "[[file:20210313165726-the_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does.org][the purpose of a
system is what it does]]" kind of argument: he looks at how capitalism behaves,
using the terms of the bourgeois economists, and shows that the purpose of
capitalism is indeed what it does by demonstrating [[file:20210310212707-general_law_of_capitalist_accumulation.org][general law of capitalist
accumulation]], which explains why poverty exists and must exist under capitalism.