Capital

I've heard it said that r'evolutionaries should be anti-capitalist. Without getting into a long discussion about Marxism it is worth considering the inner, spiritual dimensions of this fascinating word 'capitalism' used to describe the system everyone in the world lives under. To some 'capital' might conjour up the image of a major city, to others a pile of money or some other asset. To children and students it might mean an upper case letter as in capital C, at the other end of the age spectrum and of aristocratic class it can mean excellent as in 'capital idea!' Less common, but also quite possible is the thought of it as a reference to a person's death, as in 'capital punishment.' And with that idea, we might finally consider capital as an individual person in the classic economic sense as in 'per head' or 'per capita.'

I want to dwell on this latter idea. We can see hints of the origin of the word here in the French word for (hat / head?)   The origins of the word capital appear to come from the idea of a head in what was once a head of cattle.

More on towards mind and body awareness///