• Writing

    Capitalism as a Social System

    I often say this to capitalist advocates; ‘there’s nothing wrong with capitalism except that everything in it is upside down’: the economics, the politics, the artistic and the cultural, the intellectual and the scientific life of this organism called Capitalism is irrational, is warped, is wrong. Economically, it is more than capable of producing beyond all the needs of humanity yet most of humanity is kept in dire straits, troubled, broken and driven into the abyss. And above all, under capitalism, human labour— the most vital, the most creative ability of human beings— has in large turned into uncreative, unsatisfying and meaningless activities. Politically, the affairs of society and the…