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Are You a Capitalist?

4/3/2012

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I don't think so, protest though some might.  In order to answer that question we have to fully understand what capitalism actually is.  We routinely think of it as a scientific system of exchange whose origins are traced to Adam Smith, commonly thought of as the “father of modern economics” but who thought of himself as an 18th century Enlightenment philosopher of ethics and morals, as did his contemporaries like his good friend David Hume.   With the publication of Smith’s Wealth of Nations we began the modern era of continuous prosperity, so the thinking goes, brought to us by the power of free markets.  And we believe that with the collapse of the Soviet Union, socialism/communism, its mirror image and only competitor, has been vanquished, proven false and relegated to the dustbin of history books suitable now only to demonstrate the veracity of capitalism.  See there: particular private property is the only way to achieve freedom and order.  Collectivity is demonstrably tyrannical. 

Many may think that capitalism is complicated, that the now global interplay of finance, goods and services, resources and people is knowable only to the very best and brightest.  For the few actual capitalists out there this perceived complexity, this belief, is a distinct advantage enabling them to prosper in a surely dynamic world.

But capitalism is actually very simple, so simple in fact that its essence lies hidden among the growing heap of  models and data, policies and politics, laws and regulations, and endless news stories about jobs, the economy and life in all its true complexity.  

Capitalism is the separation of Capital from Labor.  That's all.

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Save yourself, each other and the planet by seeking Happiness in authentic concert

4/3/2012

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It should now be clear that something is fundamentally wrong with the world we live in.  Economic calamity, continuous war, intractable poverty and the inability to address the growing threat of climate change all signal that the development path we have pursued is the wrong path.  We must look at these problems directly and ask why?  What is the common structural frame in which these problems have persisted and grown?  Is this framework found in nature or has someone picked and assembled elements to construct it?  

The Tecumseh Project hopes to help you wade into these questions, to wonder about the world we live in and to  dream deeply about the world you would truly love to live in.  Yes, love to live in.  Truly each of us has such a short time to live it makes no sense whatsoever to waste a minute treading on roads that lead to nowhere, that are in fact roads of suffering and destruction for ourselves, our families and our ecosystem on which we depend.  
We have to aim high. 

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