‘In a rich man’s world’

‘In a rich man’s world’

Exploring whether or not capitalism is the root of all our woes   By VIOLET ZANZOT— vmzanzotl@ucdavis.edu   There’s this guy, let’s call him Karl Marx, who talked a lot about what he called “the base” of a society. Society’s system of production dictates pretty much everything else, acting as a base, according to Marx’s musings about historical materialism in his work “The German Ideology.” He referred to that “pretty much everything else” as th…