2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How to spot a threat to Democracy: Bernie Sanders and Philip K. Dick on radicalism and revolt [View all]AOR
(692 posts)You say... "As Al Gore has stated, we need a new kind of capitalism: one that puts the public good before the bottom line of profit!"
There is no kind of capitalism that "puts the public good before the bottom line of profit." The foundations of capitalism are the exploitation and expropriation of the working class. There is no other kind of capitalism that can function any other way.
It is only the degree of that exploitation, expropriation, and theft that can be mitigated under "reforms and regulation." The foundations of capitalism are rotten to the core. Capitalism has distorted and corrupted every human social relation and arrangement. Nothing is free from its clutch. Nothing positive can exist within it for the WHOLE. That is the unadulterated material and historical reality of capitalist social relations. The sooner those seeking real change get that...the sooner real change will be possible.