We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Three Evils of Capitalism

Click here if you wish to access the transcript posted on Eric's Rants and Videos in addition to the following outstanding 13:52m video produced by Eric Schechter.

I very much take exception to Schechter's self-effacing name of his website as "Eric's rants...". This is a very well reasoned attack on liberal critics of capitalism such as Naomi Klein who limit their criticisms of capitalism to only the unregulated kind. It is also the best critique of capitalism as a system that I can imagine in 14 minutes. It is definitely not a rant.

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