Excellent Will Greider Audio Interview: The Soul of Capitalism

[mhr]

Hi All,

There is an excellent interview with Will Greider at Financial Sense.

This is well wroth a listen as Greider discusses his new book, The Soul of Capitalism.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684862190/qid=1067192273/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2551234-0726559?v=glance&s=books

Links to the audio interview follow:

mp3: http://www.netcastdaily.com/1experts/2003/exp102503.mp3
Real Media: http://www.netcastdaily.com/1experts/2003/exp102503.ram

[Armstead]

1. Thanks

Greider is saying what needs to be said. The Democrats and liberals and progressives in general would do well to take a listen to his message.

[Armstead]

2. nuther kick

Having just listened to this, inspired to give it anotehr kick.

Greider nails what has happened, and what we can do about it.

Especially worthwhile for those suffering from Bush burnout and "DU malaise"

[Terwilliger]

3. kicking

but don't expect a lot of acceptance of criticism of capitalism

[JanMichael]

4. Hmm. Sounds like a commie to me.

"The solution lies in workers who "own their own work." That means a company in which all of the workers have the status of "insiders" themselves, with a real voice in decision-making and an owner's share in the profits as well as an owner's responsibility for effective performance. This is difficult to achieve, of course, but a minority of Americans have done so, sometimes with help from labor unions including the UAW. The idea is not as exotic as it sounds. It exists for roughly ten million workers in employee-owned companies."

How pray tell do we do this? How will a thousand Mondragons spring from the earth, osmosis?

I'm listening to him now, I like him, but it sounds like he's pushing "Radical Democracy" which is, whether he admits it or not, a very Democratic Socialist idea.

[JanMichael]

5. Ah. His links page says it all.

http://williamgreider.com/links/

Online Resources

* AFL-CIO: America's Union Movement

* COG-Kent State

* Economic Policy Institute

* The Nation: Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865

* Council of Institutional Investors Home Page

* The Heartland Journal

* Salon.com News

* Michael Moore.com Home

* Michael Moore.com Links

* Common Dreams

* POCLAD - Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy

* Sierra Student Coalition: The Student Run Arm of the Sierra Club

* Gerry Spence An attorney for justice and freedom

* Business-SRB chapters

* Romenesko

* Jubilee Initiative Senner

* Financial Markets Center - About FMC - Board of Directors

* Campaign for America's Future

* Apollo Alliance for Good Jobs and Energy Independence

* Institute for Public Accuracy

* Fellowship of Reconciliation USA

* Democracy Reform

* Citizens United for Fair Economy

* New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network

* New Rules Project - Designing Rules As If Community Matters

* Citizen Works

* Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

* American Independent Business Alliance

* Page-Rocky Mountain Institute

* Brennan Center for Justice

* Alliance for Democracy Homepage

* Organizations Working to Revoke Corporate Power & Build Democracy - ReclaimDemocracy.org

* RACHEL-Environmental Research Foundation

* American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees

* Center for Economic Policy and Research

* Center for Labor and Community Research

* LaborNet Online

* Global Trade Watch

* Global Exchange

* MaxSpeak.org

* Utne Reader

* Eschaton

* TalkLeft

* Rittenhouse Review

* TAPPED

* Calpundit

* This Modern World

* DailyKos

* The Progressive Populist

* Bush Whacked USA

* Silver Season (my older sister's silver sales and information site)

[Armstead]

6. Greider is usuaklly right on the mark

I've been reading him for years and years, and a more astute analyst and predictor you will not find. If you read his old columns, it's is like tracing the political/social/economic history of the US over the pastr two decades.

And his predictions have turned out to be dead on accurate.

[JasonBerry]

7. You are so right, Armstead

Greider is more often right than wrong. One of the great proponents of truly progressive economics in the country today.

By the way, the list of links from his website (above) looks good to me. It does say it all - a lot of great sites!