George Monbiot: to move beyond capitalism, first build a straw man

George Monbiot has set out his cartoonish manifesto on the Guardian website. He paints a picture of ‘what the world will look like after capitalism’, beginning with this very helpful definition:

‘If [capitalism] means a system that arises from lending money for interest, then there will be no “after capitalism”… If on the other hand Capitalism means something like the current dispensation, which allows a few people to seize much of the wealth generated by everyone, which blocks social mobility, which re-engineers the political system to serve the economic elite, then yes. There’s a lot we can do about it.’

Read the full blog post here

Source: http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/george-monbiot-to-move-beyond-capitalism-first-build-a-straw-man

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