Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Economic Update: Capitalism u0026 Its Self-Delusions" video.

  1. Thank you so much. Being an engineer and NOT a student of political theory, (in fact I generally hate such people, for the utter garbage they sell society) I normally run from such people and any of their advocates. Its taken only a few minutes of looking through other quotes to see mister Wolin is a great thinker who has seen through the smoke and mirrors. Most interestingly (and unlike so many others) he seems to like pointing out historical facts from Athenian and Roman societies which oddly I studied in college as humanities options. Please don't hold it against me that I hadn't heard of him, but I come from a different path. Here's another of his quotes from the same book that immediately struct me as the privatisation of Australia is such a hot topic for me. “The strategy followed by privatization’s advocates is, first, to discredit welfare functions as “socialism” and then either to sell those functions to a private bidder or to privatize a particular program. A traditional governmental function, such as education, is in process of being redefined, from a promise to make education accessible to all to an investment opportunity for venture capital.” ― Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: And this one which when put into the context of "Citizens United" and the current makeup of the ultra pro-corporate SCOTUS is chilling. "When power is organized in the form of an economy based upon private capital and the division of labor, then ipso facto the lives of most persons will be directed by others. Dependence is thus institutionalized as inequalities of reward and, consequently, of power.” ― Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated:
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