Out of Occupy, a New Populist Political Party Forms

[brooklynboy49]

39. Anti-Capitalist?

I consider myself to be pretty radical in my thinking, but a strict anti-capitalist system just wouldn't work in my opinion.

Sure, in a perfect world we'd live in a society such as that envisioned by Bellamy in Looking Backward. And, who knows, maybe in 50 or 100 or 200 years we'll get there.

But ya gotta temper your idealism with realism. And short-term (i.e., the next 50 years), our goal, a realistic goal, an achievable goal, is a heavily regulated capitalist system that isn't going to dramatically affect the mom and pop grocery store on the corner.

The way to achieve a financially and socially just system is by overhauling the tax laws. Heavily tax big corporations, high wage earners and the church and invest in health care and education.

This is not intended to be an exhaustive dissertation on how I think we should be proceeding short term, but I think it gives you a pretty good idea of what I feel is the best, realistic and achievable way to go. What I am proposing is going to be extremely difficult to achieve. But before you can achieve anything, you have to come to power. And you're not gonna get anybody elected dog catcher with an anti-capitalist platform. Not in the foreseeable future, anyway.