The National Poverty-and-Wealth System

Abstract

The national poverty-and-wealth system will be examined through the various subsystems we can distinguish in it. It goes without saying that we should start with the production subsystem because the contrast between poverty and wealth is an integral aspect of the prevailing mode of production. Moreover, the remaining subsystems are partly determined by the productive system. We shall look at each subsystem from the position of the poor, and in so doing we shall discover time and again that the contrast between the poor and the rich is a central feature of every one of these subsystems.