- Small is Beautiful.
- Marx 2.0
- Systems Theory
- A World like the Web
- Reform, Revolution, Evolution,
Well its not so much that Capitalism has failed…It is the industrial processes that have failed. However without the industrial revolution we wouldn’t be here…in the sense that we wouldn’t be living longer nor would we be on this machine that can communicate to the entire world.
The above are correct. I can live in a world with those 5 things. However what I want to argue is that these 5 ideas are not counter to Capitalism…they are much rather counter to industrialism.
1) Small is Beautiful.
Localism. Thats fair. That is fine. Capitalism can operate in this motive. What is a town full of butchers, farmers, teachers, doctors? They are echanging goods and services to meet supply and demand. It is free market due to the fact that there is more transparency at the local level. It’s easier to manage and it is easier to devleop and maintain…which is fine. Is it anti-capitlaism? I don’t think so. How do you pay for your doctor? How do you pay the butcher or the farmer? Probably with an exchange of goods and services. That is capitalism.
2) Marx 2.0
Strange.
“Another group of theorists are updating Marx for the 21st century, proffering models that put both control and profit of enterprises into the workers’ hands. In some of these, workers are also owners, with a full stake in the success or failure of the business.”
Doesn’t this mean co-ops?
Doesn’t it mean business partners?
Doesn’t it not mean a corporation where groups of people invest in a company?
Hell yes. Why not? Again Capitalism does not limit itself to one individual maintaining the means of production. Capitlism could careless if its one owner or 100 owners. All it depends on is again Supply meets Demand. We as autoworkers, cooperative farmers, will provide services to the rest of the community because the community demands it. That is essentially capitalism. So why not?
Systems Theory
That we are in a complex world. Where we see a web. Where we have to invest in hard costs, soft costs, human capital? That complex world? How do you think we drive production? How do we decide what to invest in. We have to study everything and analyze everything! Politics, Social constructs, economies, technologies, environments, etc. Capitalism depends on that! Capitalism feeds off of information. What do people what? What do people demand? We supply it. We learn the market. We learn what communities want and we strive after that. Knowing more costs less.
I’m gong to stop here.
What this article about is merely the rage against the Industrial machine.
Which we know by now is very primitative. Very naiive where we depended on mondernism and too much rationality that we failed and ignored the social and environmental problems that would be brought on.
Again I think Capitalism provides freedom. Why should we have the government in production? Why can’t people and groups of people create goods and services?
Isn’t that a democracy? Isn’t that a local and
Capitalism will change. Thats why its so great! It changes and it evolves continually because the supply and demand always changes. Another group of theorists are updating Marx for the 21st century, proffering models that put both control and profit of enterprises into the workers’ hands. In some of these, workers are also owners, with a full stake in the success or failure of the business. I don’t want governments butting in…I don’t want government changing prices and creating demand.
Sure sometimes its necessary. Sometimes government needs to invest. Governments always need to provide services. but, government should not produce products…or at least all of our products. It should be left up to our people. To the communities who want what they want. It should be left up to citizens who know what they want.
Welcome to the Ecological Age. Driven by supply and demand.
Demand for equitable, economical, and environmental products.
Demand for services that consider the equity, economy, and environment.
Where: Economy, Equity, and Ecology will be important.
