Filmmaker Michael Moore's video Capitalism: A Love Story is another good look at the problems
with modern capitalism.
Not exact matches
What is particularly interesting, though, is the connection drawn between astrology
with authoritarianism, fascism and
modern capitalism (remember that this was in the aftermath of WWII and the Holocaust).
With the experience of the past to draw upon and a large and growing set of studies on how different forms of employee share ownership and profit sharing work in
modern settings, it is time to examine how ownership and profit - sharing policies can help make U.S.
capitalism more efficient and equitable in the current economic environment.
In the broadest sense of the term, they are political problems, as the social problems associated
with the explosive successes of
capitalism have always been in the
modern era.
Brian C. Anderson has it right that
capitalism is part of our moral problem but, like Francis Fukuyama, follows up a discouraging diagnosis of
modern liberal democracy
with an optimistic remedy for its potentially fatal diseases.
Unfortunately most American protestants ignore the Gospels in favor of the prosperity teaching in the old books (it aligns
with capitalism) Jesus's teachings align more closely
with Socialism than any other form of
modern government structure.
It maligns the implicit universalism of our new global interdependence and denies the associative aspects of
modern corporate
capitalism (confusing it
with the ideology of rugged individualism, which has not been a serious contender since 1929).
Filled
with interesting and true critiques of
modern industrial
capitalism and centralized bureaucratic....
Filled
with interesting and true critiques of
modern industrial
capitalism and centralized bureaucratic statism, one was left
with the question, «is that all there is?»
And then America morphed into being the most imperial of the
modern nation - states — out to dominate the world
with its particularly brutal form of
capitalism.
In our
modern polytheism it enters into close relationship
with capitalism, though not without friction and occasional conflict, and sometimes it appears to offer an alternative faith to those who have become disillusioned
with wealth - worship.
It too has more or less liberal and conservative expressions,
with the former leaning toward communitarianism (a kind of unlikely hybrid of socialism and
capitalism that Alasdair MacIntyre once rather dryly called «going to bed
with the phone company») and the latter stressing traditional morality and trying to resist the rationalizing trends of
modern society.
But it may be imperative for Indians, who, arriving late in the
modern world, are confronted
with the possibility that economic growth on the model of Western consumer
capitalism is no longer environmentally sustainable.
In
modern times this has often meant the alliance of the Christian church
with the bourgeoisie and its support of
capitalism.
In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified
with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of,
modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses
with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.
Modern capitalism was born and
with it new social pressures.
The proudly centrist governor critiqued
modern day
capitalism in a manner more fitting for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the fellow Democrat and liberal who Mr. Cuomo sparred
with in the mayor's first year.
In fact, we rather felt sorry for them and felt it unfair that they should cope
with sadistic aliens in addition to
modern capitalism...
The exhibition included his defining creation, the graphic novel Soft City, which encapsulates a generation's disenchantment
with capitalism and life in the
modern city.
Following on from his successful This Way Up exhibition in 2017, Midlands - based artist and printmaker Matthew Kel continues his exploration and fascination
with the social construct of
capitalism and its salient relationship
with modern popular and consumer culture.
Alessandro Orsini, founding partner of Architensions, a Brooklyn - based practice co-led
with Nick Roseboro, will share a model of practice that refuses to separate architecture from urbanism proposing a paradigm antithetical to
modern capitalism, giving back to architecture its autonomous form.
The exhibition explores the birth of the first multinational company and
Modern Capitalism in the Dutch Golden Age as it stretches through history intersecting trade routes, culture and colonisation to the rise of China
with Authoritarian
Capitalism.
Farmers, unions, social organizations, indigenous peoples, women and youth (at the national, regional and global level) have come together to demand climate justice and fight against the consumerist and extractivist model that, along
with the
capitalism and neoliberalism systems of the
modern world, is harming Mother Earth.
Tchernobyl is mainly caused by the encounter of stalinian lack of respect for security,
with modern «management by profitability»... after decennies of pure soviet management, the mix of management pressure
with soviet terror, cooked
with economic weakness lead to the drama... then soviet hiding, occidental cowardness, NGO fear mongering, crony
capitalism son of Washington Consensus, finish the dirty job... and most of the dead and poor are not linked to radioactivity, but to crony
capitalism and fear mongers.
Orion Magazine currently has an interview
with Speth which I think is important to read, but here are some excerpts to give you to set the tone: «
Modern Capitalism» Has Failed to Create a Sustainable World Orion describes how Speth sees the problem: