Surviving Capitalism (Not) : How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist

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, March 5, 2014

How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist

Click here to access article by Chris Wilson posted on Films for Action.

This article provides a memoir of an interesting political journey on which the author traveled as described by the title. In the process he learns how the system of capitalism essentially forces people into acting certain ways, ways that he rejected and the system from which they sprung.