We need a new system [View all]

[Taverner]

Seriously - one that leverages the best political theories of the 20th centuries, as well as the most pragmatic policy of that time as well.

The system is broken, that's clear as day.

But what do we replace it with?

The government, as we understood it for the past 200 years, is gone. Today it is just a dog and pony show, put on by the Corporatocracy.

As Emma Goldman, Anarchist, once said: "If voting made a difference, it would be illegal."

We need to seriously look at alternative political theory here. That means re-investigating Communism, Marxism, Socialism, both Utopian and Scientific, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Mutualism and Direct Democracy.

We know this system cannot sustain itself in the long haul.

It means we must send to the dustbin of history Corporate Capitalism and Neoloberalism - these theories have destroyed our country, and as I mentioned earlier, do not scale.

As for exactly what we need, I don't know.

But I know what we don't need - and I know the best way to eliminate something we don't need is to study its criticisms. This means it is time to crack that old copy of "Capital" by Karl Marx. This is, by far, the greatest critique of Capitalism ever written.