Capitalism is often defined as, “an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth”. So what does Capitalism have anything to do with Zombies? Zombies are both heartless and mindless creatures that devour resources in the same way capitalism needs profit. They are never satisfied. “Zombies are fictional undead creatures, typically depicted as mindless, reanimated human corpses with a hunger for hu
man flesh. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from
Haitian folklore where a zombie is a dead body animated by magic. Modern depictions of zombies do not necessarily involve magic but invoke other methods such as a virus”. Zombies are the face of Capitalism. They mock our mortality. “The zombies embody the classic Marxist critiques of capitalism. The heartless creatures mindlessly devour resources (i.e. human brains) in the same way that capitalism pursues profit for its own sake”. Capitalisms main goal is to dominate. Always unsatisfied needing to expand, needing more in order to sustain itself. This relates to art in a sense that a lot of the works today are meaningless and empty. They are created just for fame with no real purpose or underlying meaning to it. It all leads to society and how much it has changed. When todays art works are viewed there is a sense of mindless to it. In todays society, it is all about fame and wealth. Greed is consuming the world. Most individuals are never really satisfied with what they have. They always want more and more until there’s nothing left. Exactly like both Capitalism and Zombies. “Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed…” Karl Marx
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