A Free Liberal Economy - 1604 Words

MARXIST: The fact that the countries most affected by the Ebola virus are among the poorest and most disadvantaged in the world should come to no surprise to any of you. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM: In this context, how do you view social interactions? MARXIST: The same countries that have gained their independency de jure in fact remain constrained by new forms of colonization under the guise of a free liberal economy (Daddow, 2013). But we aren’t really speaking of countries. We are speaking of an economic structure, which, due to its hierarchical nature, perpetuates socioeconomic inequalities and stifles the periphery class’s agency (Rupert, 2010). In actuality, the same class-based powers that benefited from colonialism now author and†¦show more content†¦It is in this context that, among the poor nations stricken with Ebola, the majority of those who contracted and die of the disease are women. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST: In the world that exists as you know it, who stands to gain from reality the way you see it? MARXIST: Agents are historical social products. Neoliberalism in particular, speaks of the world as if it was predetermined world of â€Å"preconstituted social actors.† In doing so it jettisons the possibility of alternative potential worlds. (Rupert, 2010). To answer your question: it is incontrovertibly the elite class owns the means of production and assumes entitlement to power. The society we live in perpetuates the existing set of implicit social agreements and ordering of the world (Rupert, 2010). Under capitalism, elites have perpetuated their predominance of power while leaving most people vulnerable and economically insecure—all because it serves its own benefit (Hymer, 2006) SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST: In regards to Ebola— MARXIST [INTERRUPTING]: —Thus, in the current economic system that not only consents to but hinges on gross economic and thereby socio-political inequality, the proletariat are left unable to meet their basic needs and are as a result more susceptible to contracting Ebola (Hymer, 2006). SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST: