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Rawls explicitly stated that “welfare state capitalism” could never fully achieve his principles of justice.[71] Rather, we need to reimagine our economic model in a more fundamental way—embracing a more universal approach to meeting basic needs, developing a comprehensive agenda to increase earnings and share society’s wealth, and putting meaningf
... See moreDaniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
The rise of the service sector has, in her view, made emotional work more systematized, standardized, and mass-produced, but its existence still capitalizes on the fact that, from childhood women, have been trained to have an instrumental relation to their emotions.20
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
John Stuart Mill, arch advocate of free people and free markets, once said that if widespread scarcity was a hallmark of capitalism, he would become a communist.)[26]
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Ric Burton • Community Capitalism
Before the wage earner could emerge as our society’s paradigmatic subject, the persona that we must all embody to survive, the condition of what historian Michael Denning calls “wagelessness” had to be imposed via the process of enclosure, after which peasants could no longer provide for themselves. “Capitalism begins not with the offer of work, bu
... See moreAstra Taylor • Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
One of Adam Smith’s most intelligent and penetrating readers was the German economist Karl Marx. Marx agreed entirely with Smith’s analysis: specialization had indeed transformed the world and possessed a revolutionary power to enrich individuals and nations. But where he differed from Smith was in his assessment of how desirable this development m
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The ‘science’ consists in the ‘laws of historical motion’ set out in Das Kapital and elsewhere, according to which economic development brings about successive changes in the economic infrastructure of society, enabling us to predict that private property will one day disappear.
Roger Scruton • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
“Wilde saw that his reconsideration of aestheticism must deal with social and political ideas in a more concerted fashion than in the earlier days, when he had discussed the beautification of life. A lecture by Bernard Shaw probably stimulated him, though socialism meant something quite different to Wilde. He annoyed his friend Walter Sichel by arg
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