why has noone noticed that raistlin is a closet communist? his claim that life should not be judged by money is so close to marxist philosophy it's scary.

captalism is based on the idea that money is your rewardin life. you do a good job you get paid more. it is the ojne reward of a captalist system more work = more money. while not always true in a captalist society as one man can do less work and earn more money, land owners for instance, inheriters. but that is beside the point really. the reward in a capatalist society is money, that's what the economic theory is actually based around. that people want more money so they want to succeed more which makes the world go round. pure captalism used to be followed in britain in the victorian age and indutrial revolution. it is in essence laissez-faire.

the idea being the big wig owns a factory. he employs people with poor money so he can make more profits, so he has more money with this money he can buy more things thus employing more people with a new factory or by buying lots of new shiny things. both provide more jobs and money. he is free to do with his welath as he please but at the end of the day it will all benefit someone. even putting it in a bank will benefit the banker. benefitting the banker means he has more money and so can either get a new bank and emply more people or buy new shiny things. see how it works?

each man is rewarded with money. in the above example though who has the power? the big wig. we decides what wage he pays his worker and so how much money he makes. laissez-faire tells us that no matter if he chooses to pay his workers more than a pound a day or keeps the money to himself benefits society.

happily this idea died out. people saw that big was being a touch exploitative if he continued to pay his workers badly, employed children, and had no health and safety. people saw this as a very bad thing cos people had a habity of dying for whatever reason. the government had the same policy with the helath of the people until everyone starting getting cholera and started dying all over the place. it then decided that leaving the power with mr big wig was possibly not a great idea becase no matter how it benefitted society mr big wig did what he saw fit with his money, and that was moslty for his benefit so people has the odd habit of getting their hands stuck in the machines and getting cholera becuase installing clean water has not on the top of his agenda compared to buying a new factory or mansion.

so the goverment decided that it might be a good idea for the government to do stuff. so it made a sanitation system. and people didn't get cholera. it forced health and safety and people didn't get their hands stuck in machines anymore. it forced minimum wage and people no longer went hungry. death was done to the liassez-faire policy and mr big wig lost some of his power.

however his money continued to grow and at a much faster rate than his workers. so he regained his power. and the workers were not happy. they believed that they work harder than mr big wig but he had more money. in effect they made mr biug wigs money and without them he was up the creek. the idea formed that the worker was more important than the owner. without them the company would fail.

each job is as important as the other.

communism belives like raistlin does that money was not how people should be rewarded for what they do. it gave people a sense of purpose. in communist russia this was the war effort. the idea was that all work needed to be done, all people could do different things and all people were equal and would be rewarded equally. of course this would still need to be done by money as tghat is the way the world works. but at the same time people would gain pride in their work, working together for the good of the community. not for their purely for their won gain. however they will be rewarded in themselves.

raistlin hinted at htis point when he said money is not how a man should be judge nor should it be his reward. this idea is actually a marxist one. not capatalist. the reward in capatalism is money. and more money than others.