We're all born socialists and then become indoctrinated into capitalism. I’ll also point out that nobody learns about socialism from a book. Which does not prove that socialism is wrong, it merely proves that capitalism is violent. Socialism has never once, in its history as an idea, been “proven wrong.” Every attempt to institute socialism has been met with brutal and bloody repression by capitalists. However, this book is a commendable effort towards deconstructing the biases and baseless fears associated with socialism, and it deserves more attention for that. While this book is a good introductory primer and the text largely uses accessible language with a few jokes sprinkled in, it definitely isn’t a comprehensive analysis of socialism as a political theory. If you need your socially-imposed, profit-focused bias of ‘socialism will just create a boring dystopian state of tyranny and uniformity’ to be blasted off to smithereens, please read this book. We need viable, efficient alternatives and throughout this book Katch justifies how socialism is just that. After all scores of products that we can’t afford, don’t even need but have an apparent access to are introduced into the market everyday.īut capitalism cannot be just wished away, mere liberal criticism won’t put an end to it. It requires continuous support and consent from the majority, that the one percent obtain by creating an illusion of choice. But the fact that we still have these problems with not even an excuse of a solution is enough to prove that the current democratic systems are anything but majority run.Ĭontrary to the populist propaganda, capitalism is not a self-sustaining system. You’d think that since democratic systems are in place in most of the world, the most important decisions that will have long term effects on our species as a whole (how do we deal with climate change? How do we effectively end world hunger and poverty when for the first time in human history we have more than enough resources to ensure it?) would involve majority consensus. Never mind that this capitalistic humanity is an exclusive club full of egomaniacs who pledge their loyalty to development in more exclusive ceremonies designed to only inflate their egos through mutual jerking off.
Most of us are happy to go along with the willy-nilly whims of the ironically named, invisible ‘free market’ that we have been convinced has the progress of humanity at heart. Because as Danny Katch points out, capitalism can be called many nasty names, but boring is not one of them. You Can't Have Billionaires And DemocracyĬapitalism today has acquired a religion-like status, and unsurprisingly enjoys the benefit of worship from an unsuspecting, unaware and brainwashed population.
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