Representation of Anti-Authoritarian Capitalism
the fact to the capitalism, all the tools and production sources are in the hands of private ownership. Therefore, the private companies are independent to allocate
their expenses either for production fee or the employees’ fee based on their eagerness. Obviously, the main concern of the capitalist is the profit-making. The
following excerpts demonstrate the focus of the private firms on profit-making.
28 As corporate welfare flows from troughs of the state Circumstance, big business Actor takes Process more than their fair take Goal.
S6.C11
29 Cant you realize that big business Actor is just talking Process like tax men at your door fuckin knockinCircumstance. S6.C13
30 In china Circumstance, Nike Actor pays Process workers Recipient
fifty cents
a day
Goal. S8.C9
In the U.S Circumstance, lawmakers Actor give Process China Recipient “free trade” Goal S8.C10.
The Actors, big business and Nike are the representation of the private ownership. As the capitalist, their action of taking more than their fair take and
paying fifty cents a day signifies their concern of making profits. In excerpt 28, taking more indicates they take out of their portion: they take employees portion.
Excerpt 29 has big business as the Actor. The action, just talking and the circumstance, like tax men at your door fuckin knockin reveal that the point of
welfare as the product of NAFTA is nonsense. It is identical to the tax which society demands to pay for their welfare however factually it is the government
and the riches who get welfare not the society. In excerpt 30, paying fifty cents a day describes the super-low wage received by the workers, the Recipient. Nike as
one of the globally largest private company presses the amount of money paid in order to decrease the expenditure. By doing so, the company gets big income. The
Circumstance, in China shows that the depiction of capitalism occurs in China. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Moreover, the another circumstance, in the U.S depicts other side where China, Recipient gets advantage of the free trade by the law of the Actor, lawmakers
which refers to the American government. The second mostly occurred processes in transitivity analysis are the
relational processes. It represents processes of relation which obligatorily require two participants. The first relational process is identifying process. It clarifies the
relation between two participants namely token and value. The second processes are attributive processes that define relation between Carrier and Attribute.
In supporting the ideology of capitalism, both processes clarify the identity and the character of the capitalists. By considering the numbers and the frequency
see appendix 1: Relational Processes, the most prominent processes exist is the attributive process. It means the way to deliver the ideology through the relational
process is by presenting the capitalist’s characters. The realization of relational process to support the capitalism ideology is
visible through some issues. NAFTA is one of the issues. The identities of the capitalists are shown through the issue as provided in the clauses below.
31 Big business Token are Process the pimps Value and governments Token their whores Value S6.C3
The characteristic of the capitalist depicts in Token, big business and governments. The relation carried by the clause is the identifying process. The
pimps identifies the big business as they shared the same job description such as controlling the business, arranging clients for them and taking a percentage of
their earnings in return. The government is identified as the whores because they PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
are working for the pimps to get money. It is clear that government is under the control of the big business.
In relation to NAFTA, corporate control government in areas such as trade policy, tax policy, environmental policy, foreign policy and labor policy. The
form of regulating trade policy and labor policy is the big business spends more on payback; “an advantage received from something, especially the profit from a
financial investment” CALD3.This policy causes the minimum wages for the labors.
Dissimilar with the identifying process, the attributive process shows the character of the Carrier which refers to the capitalists.
32 The rich Carrier are Process rich Attribute because they Carrier are Process smarter Attribute than me Circumstance
S2.C4.
The Attribute, rich marks the character of the Carrier, the rich. Simply, rich is the character of the rich. The rich is identical to the capitalist since the word refers to
people who has money-motive to enrich themselves. The further clause has smarter as the character of pronoun, they, which refers to the rich. The clause is
attributive since smarter does not denote the rich. The rich are not necessarily smart.
Another issue related to capitalism is about taxes. The tax is the amount of money that individuals or businesses paid to the state. In relation to capitalism,
taxation is essential function of the state. The state is a political institution by which the ruling classes dominate the classes under their control. It uses its
domination to regulate its citizens to pay taxes. In capitalism, the state is operated PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
for the benefit of the capitalists, wealthy private owners of the basic means of production and circulation of all commodities and wealth. Taxation is the general
method by which capitalists collect state revenue to keep the state going. In U.S, government levy several different types of taxes on individuals and
businesses. The Federal government relies mainly on income taxes for its revenue while State governments depend on both income and sales taxes. The income
taxes are taxes that you have to pay on your income, which is usually higher for people with larger incomes. The kind of tax is called as progressive tax which
means the higher your income is, the higher your tax is. The sales taxes are intended to people who buy goods and services.
The essence of citizens’ obedience in paying taxes is their expectation for the government to wisely use the tax for public service. However, when the
critical services such as social security, health care, national defense and education are not met their needs, citizens as the taxpayers tend to overestimate
how much tax money goes toward governments and may underestimate whether or not the amount of taxes spent on the crucial programs. The condition obviously
depicts the character of capitalism. The capitalist government constrains the society.
Material processes supports to reveal what the Actor does and what happened with the Actor. In the topic of taxes payment, the material processes
exposit what the government do with the U.S tax dollars in relation to their service to the society. The excerpts below are the examples relate with taxes.
33 They Actor are working Process for us Client just as long as we increase their pay Circumstance but the minute they get into office,
we are a has-been a yesterdayS3.C3b
34 Its the same today as then as Circumstance, U.S. tax dollars Goal are spent Process to rid the native insurgence in Mexico, and
any other U.S. corporate interests Circumstance S5.C5. 35 The tax dollars we Goal are forced to pay Process Actor fund
Process these heartless U.S. policies Goal S5.C7a-b
The portrayal of capitalism shown in excerpt 33 is the capitalist government will work if they receive the big revenue. The word, pay, refers to the
taxation. Explicitly, the government as the Actor will working for the society as the Client if they are agree to increase their taxes. The circumstance shows the
time limit which indicates that in a certain time, the Actor will stop working for the Client if the Actor expected demand is not fulfilled by the Client. It means the
Client will not receive any service. In the factual condition, the bourgeoisie and the corporation often get benefits since they pay many taxes than the middle-
working class or lower-working class. Therefore, it is no wonder if government has tendency to get controlled by them.
In excerpt 34, the Actor is missing but obviously it refers to the government. It is because the responsible figure spending the taxes is government.
It is depicted that the U.S tax dollars are spent for the unexpected portions. First is spending for the native insurgence in Mexico. It is an attempt to take control of
Mexico by force. Through free trade agreement of North America countries, U.S has effort to control and take benefits from Mexico natural resources and their
labors. U.S buys with their crops with minimum payment and pays the labor with the low wages. Those performances toward Mexico impact the state policy. U.S
as the superpower country dominates Mexico. Second is to rid any other U.S corporate “interests”. The word, interests is the economic term which deals with
advantage. The capitalist government use taxes for their own benefits. The condition is assessed as repetitious phenomenon. The circumstance shows the
time which indicates that the phenomenon has been repeated since past, being repeated at the present and will be repeated in the future.
The excerpt 35 consists of two clauses. In the first clause, the verb phrase, forced to pay reflects the authority of government as the capitalist. The use of
power to compel society in paying taxes indicates the disagreement of society on the taxation. It is the effect of U.S government policies which is considerably
heartless. Since the word, heartless means displaying a complete lack of feeling or consideration CALD3, thus, society refusal on the tax is due to the use of taxes
to fund government’s programs is out of expectation. The taxes are used for bringing no benefit for society but causing profit to the government.
The relational processes showing the character of capitalism through excerpt as follows.
36 The government says they are working for us just as long as we
increase their pay but the minute they get into office Circumstance, we Carrier are Process a has-been a yesterday Attribute.
S3.C3
The relational processes in this topic represent the relation between the Carrier and the Attribute. It means the attribute is the character of the Carrier. We
as the Carrier is characterized as a has-been a yesterday. The pronoun represents society including Anti-Flag. Society is described as forgettable figure. The
circumstance indicates the time and location of place. It means, at a certain time and place government will easily forget their duties towards society after they
achieve their interests. The capitalism is perceptible the government motive to profit themselves by asking taxes form society. They merely consider for their
own selves not their society. War profiteering is the last topic which unmask the ideology of capitalism
in Anti-Flag song lyrics. The term, profiteering, is associated with the performance of taking advantage of a situation in which other people are suffering
to make a profit by creating war CALD3. The concept of war profiteering was introduced by the 34th president of U.S, General D. Eisenhower. He stated term,
“the military-industrial complex” in his farewell in January 1961. The term refers to the relation of those who manage wars the military, the presidential
administration and the congress and those companies that produce weapons and equipment for war. Those parties involved in managing wars are called as the war
profiteers. The war profiteers used their political and economic clout to influence national policy, especially economic development and international relations, to
serve their own interests at the expense of the general public Davidson, 2011. The profiteers of the war are included big corporations, the bourgeoisie and
government. The government consists of the presidential administration and the congress. They are the parties who use war as a source of enrichment. They
allowed the stakeholders to trade weapons and human trafficking. The big corporation and the bourgeoisie use war as a source of enrichment: providing
weapons and war equipment. Also, they use human concern as the pretext of PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
making money from war. They use the war-affected societies to be the mercenaries.
War requires for the weapons and other equipment. To meet the needs of military, government hire companies to supply services and materials for the war.
It is due to the assumption that the cooperation with companies is the most effective means to support the war effort. The dependency of government towards
the companies and government’s oversight create chances for the companies to increase their profit. They tend to do some craftiness such as fraud, overcharging
or poor qualities of work. The issue of war profiteering exists during the warfare. Needless to say, the profiteering of war will remain occurs unless the government
has a way out to regulate about the good supplies and their deserved prices. Unfortunately, the attempts to curb the excessive profits that the companies gain
from the war were successfully passed with which the government and the businesses both benefited.
The warfare and capitalism are intertwined. The profit motive of the companies to support the military needs on war is clearly proven the capitalism
existence in war. The high demand on the goods and services to support war causes companies to greedily give high price for their products. Government lacks
power to control due to the ownership of the production tools and do the production are on the private companies. The condition place the government as
the depend party. Moreover, the competition among the capitalist insist to find market and tools production which is profitable. War becomes the promising and
profit-making market for the businesses. The topic of war profiteering which indicate the capitalism are shown in the excerpts as follows.
37 They Actor
throw Process a war Goal like a party
Circumstance S2.C3b 38 A money-making schemeGoal led Processby war profiteering
whoresActorS13.C8
39 As the brainwashed nationalists move to shed their blood on battle
fields Circumstance, War profiteering rich Actor watch Process their stocks reap high yields Scope. S11.C3
40 And so the time has finally come Circumstance,the bourgeoisie Actor has signed Process the war decree Goalwith proletariat
blood Circumstance. S10.C1
War as the source of money making for the businesses, the bourgeoisie, and government surely must exist. Therefore, those war profiteers create condition to
trigger the war. As it appears in excerpt 37, the Actor do the action of throw. The word contains the meaning of to have a party CALD3. The war which
morally must be a misery becomes a celebration for them profiteers. War becomes the worthy business for the few. Apparently, the high
development of making money from war has created such as strong system to regulate the business.. It is mentioned in excerpt 38, the word, led describes the
control of an influential person or group to control a group of people, a country, or a situation. There are few influences that the profiteers produce. They have ability
to decide the market price. The high price means the high income for them. They pay the mercenaries to fight for in order to gain more return. The mercenary has
no concern with the battle; they are interested only in the amount of money that they can get from the situation. In addition, the word, scheme in the money-
making scheme presented as the Goal contains the meaning of “an officially PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
organized plan or system” CALD3. It obviously discloses that the business is systematic, organized and official. Government as the employer also receives
proceeds of the business. War involves military who are fighting in the battle for national defence.
The fighting related to the nationalism: a great love of your own country CALD3. The nationalism is tendentiously used by the leader of nation to brainwash the
armed forces. Therefore, they will fight and sacrifice their life for their beloved country. The war will keep going on. In Bush administration, he invades Iraqi
with the purpose to find the MDW massive destroyed weapons which in fact it is never discovered. It is predicted that the president has secretive motive which is to
occupy the oil there. Thousands of troops have died for nothing in that invasion. The war which is legally supported by the government rich themselves but kill
people. It can be seen in excerpt 39, the Actor’s profit is going up as the military is fighting for the country.
The emergence of war, nowadays, is not purely because of the aim of national defence. It is about the business among the supreme parties. It is what the
military-industrial complex about the primary need of the arms insist government to cooperate with the companies for the arms supply. The cooperation is legally
made as a decree. As it appears in excerpt 40, the word, has signed the war decree shows that that the actuality of the war is legally contracted by the
profiteers; the bourgeoisie. However, it is worst for the war is use as means to enrich the superior and sacrifice the inferior. The circumstance, with the
proletariat blood indicated the manner. The agreement of the war decree means the sacrifice of the proletariat as the inferior.
The existence of war profiteering are also visible in the relational processes. The relational processes validate the character of war profiteers as the capitalists.
The excerpt below is the example showing the topic.
41 And so the time has finally come, the bourgeoisie has signed the war decree with proletariat blood. And that blood which flows from their
pen Carrieris Process the closest that theyve ever been to the peopleAttribute S14.C1
The excerpt is attributive. It presents the character of the bourgeoisie. They are characterized through the use of their pen as the representation. The italic
words are related to the identity of the bourgeoisie as the signer of the war decree. This identity is characterized as the very close range of place of the bourgeoisie to
the proletariat. The war decree signing has marked the involvement of the bourgeoisie in the war profiteering. Their actuality is possibly to acquire millions
or billions dollars. The other processes are the rarely occurred processes in the song lyrics.
They are consisted of mental processes and verbal processes. Their distribution can be seen in appendix.
The mental processes supports the presence of ideology by showing the actor’s sensing such as feeling affective, thinking cognitive and perceptive
perceiving through five senses. The mental processes in anti-authoritarian capitalism are mostly in perception process and desideration process. It is just
different a point with cognition process. Affection process is less used. The following excerpts show the mental processes.
42 They Senser want to take away Process the little they call something Phenomenon S2.C10b.
43 A greedy gang of liars, yeah we Senser have seen Process it all Phenomenon before Circumstance S13.C7.
44 We Senser
know Process
their game
Phenomenon know Process they are corrupt PhenomenonS10.C7
Excerpt 42 is a Desiderative process. It is shown through word, want. The Senser has a desire to take away something as described in Phenomenon. The
word, the little refers the advantages they take from society. It indicates that they only took a small portion whereas in fact it is not. The mental process shown in
excerpt 43 is perceptive process as it is shown by verb have seen. The Senser is the person who in fact perceives the Phenomenon directly. The word, it in
Phenomenon refers to a greedy gang of liars. The excerpt 44 carries the cognitive process. The Senser states their knowledge about the Phenomenon. The
noun phrases, their game refers to government system and they are corrupt refers to government character.
The verbal processes support ideology of capitalism by showing who the Sayer is, what the Sayer says is; Verbiage and whom the Verbiage is addressed to.
It appears 11 times. For its complete distribution, see appendix 3. Based on the number and frequency of the participants’ distribution, the most used participant
is the Sayer-Verbiage in 7 clauses and the second is Sayer-Receiver-Verbiage in 4 clauses. The Sayer is a participant who says verbiage, a content of the saying. The
Receiver does not appear. The excerpts show its presence is provided as follow. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
45 They Sayer throw a war like a party saying Process,Its for a moral. Verbiage S2.C5
46 The government Sayer says Process they are working for just as long as we increase their payVerbiage S3.C3a
The Sayer is the government. The verbal process detected on verbs say and claim. In excerpt 45, the Verbiage addressed to what they say. It is stated in
quotation means government directly state it. The content of the verbiage clarifies the reason of throwing the war. According to government, war occurs for moral
cause. In excerpt 46, the government as the Sayer has a Verbiage in reporting form. The content of it contains causal-effect. The more the society pay the tax,
the government will work. In other work, how the government works depends on how much the society pay the tax.
The representation of anti-authoritarian capitalism lies in some clauses in Anti-Flag’s song lyrics. The modals will be differentiated in high, mid and low
modals degree. They help to indicate the degree of speaker’s judgment. The classification of modals’ level can be seen in table 4.11 see appendix 11
Probability is about the level of possibility of something happening or being true; likelihood. It appears as much as two times in high degree. Its appearance is
displayed as follows.
47 They are gonna give you nothing. They want to take way the little
they call something S2.C10 48 Let the feds pass a law, that takes your rights away cause
you gotta sacrifice if you want to stay safetil the day you find the feds in your back pocket locking you away for saying, question,
think, or stop it S7.C4b PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
The high degree might be interpreted that the ideology is built by the processes that are strongly certain. In line with the ideology, the modal in excerpt
47 indicates that the speakers argue that the capitalists the government, the private ownership companies and the rich are certainly will give nothing to the
society. The certain thing to do is just to gain profit which for them it just a small portion. In excerpt 48, the modal emphasizes to a condition which certain to
happen with society. The speakers state that the society is put as the victim of the capitalists. They will certainly be sacrificed; get murdered, lost their jobs, gain
low income, etc. The Usuality type delivers the frequency and regularity of human in doing
processes. It emphasizes on how often the actor do an action. The presence of usuality is displayed in the following excerpt.
49 Theyre getting rich by selling weapons to both countries,
You never think to question what youre told S2.C9
The modal carries the high degree which emphasizes the actor is not at all do the action. Society at no time considers querying what has been told to them.
The situation portrays that the society is getting controlled by people in authority. In relation to capitalism, the speakers tend to state that the capitalists who
hierarchically have power, rich and high social status is not at any time give chance for society to speak up. The society just needs to do their commands and
obey their rules. The type of modal, ability is about the competence or strength of the actor
to perform an action. The modal is presented in the coming excerpt. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
50 Cant you realize that the big business just talk, talk, talk, talkin...
like tax men at your door, fuckin knockin knockin knockin... S7.C13
The modal shows inability of the actor performance. It is shown by the use of negative modal. The actor is unable to recognize a situation. In other words, the
society; the labors are not aware that big business is merely promising the appropriate wages. At the end, the labors never receive the appropriate wages for
their works. The speakers intention is about to make the society; the listeners conscious the real condition and character of the capitalists.
Besides modality analysis, pronoun analysis is considerably crucial to be discussed. It helps to show where the speakers focus their attention at. The use
pronouns, I, you, we and they represents the actors involved in the ideologies such as Anti-Flag as the speakers, the government and the capitalists and the society.
The use of pronoun, I represent Anti-Flag. The representation of government, capitalists and fascists are depicted in pronoun, you, however in other side, the
pronoun also denotes the society. The use of pronoun you indicates Anti-Flag position as not a part of society. The presence of Anti-Flag as the part of society is
represented in pronoun, we and they. The pronoun, they, refers to the government, capitalists and fascists representation. The frequency of occurrence of each actor
is provided in table 4.12 see appendix 12. The most occurred actor is the government and capitalists. They appear in
vary pronouns such as them, us and you. Each pronoun occurs 13 times, 3 times and a time. The frequent occurrence of pronoun, they shows that Anti-Flag in the
ideology of capitalism takes position as the part of society or in-group. The excerpts below display the presence of each pronoun in clause.
51 We know their game know they are corrupt S10.C7 52 You push and push a people, what are they do? S6.C1