Capitalism the Inhumane Form: A Lukacsian Comparative Reading of Capitalism in The Mill on the Floss and Ulysses

For Marxists, capitalism is a real kick in the teeth. Capitalism, as Marxists affirm, is an inhumane, devastating form, because it is antithetical to Marxism, and because it encourages dishonest competition and the destruction of the small by the big. For much worse, it debases culture and transforms all things, even human beings into commodities. Generally most Marxists almost unanimously make this point that capitalism causes negative effects and they are still trying to show them. In this paper Capitalism and some of its effects on the societies depicted in The Mill and Ulysses will be assessed. The reader will learn that the rise of different classes in a capitalist society, according to Lukacs, is the result of the injustice; that these classes struggle and as a result, some of them will disappear along with their culture and civilization; that the capitalist system is barbaric because it turns human beings into animals, love into mere sexual desire; that capitalism has a bad influence on literature and turns it into a commodity; that economic necessity in a capitalist society determines everything.