Modern approaches have diverged from every standard perception of the phenomenon of poverty and explained it through objective approaches, not only in order to understand the phenomenon, but to provide appropriate solutions to it as a multidimensional problem. This paper focuses on different philosophical, religious, economic, legal and political perceptions of poverty. While it is possible to distinguish between different dimensions of poverty at the methodological level, in reality these dimensions overlap and are mutually reinforcing according to different social and historical contexts. The research concludes that capitalist globalization has led to two dangerous consequences: the dominance of capital over labour and to some extent its independence from labour and the transformation of the democratic state into a complex system to serve global capital.