Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Alternatives to Capitalism -- a book review

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

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Alternatives to Capitalism -- a book review

Click here to access the article in which Errol Sharpe from The Media Co-op (Canada) offers his review of a new book by Richard Swift. (Note: The Media Co-op is Canada's premier independent source of news and analysis offering a radical alternative to their capitalist media.)

Swift’s book is a much needed antidote to the myriad of political clap trap that spouts from our daily newspapers and much of our “left” journalism which suggests that capitalism can be reformed and regulated in such a way that an ecological and economic disaster can be avoided.