I hope to read these books myself eventually. I must say the title ‘The Road to Serfdom’ ironically reminds me of was the left-wing economist Yanis Varafoukis fears is replacing capitalism - not communism but TechnoFeudalism, a form of serfdom in itself.
Me again! I’m reading and commenting in parts? Given your reading, when would you say capitalism begun? My son asked me exactly this the other day - and I would have guessed around the time of trading of African people to be enslaved workers in the New World economy. But that wasn’t a highly informed guess. What would you say after reading the book?
“I learned much in those years, and much of that learning feeds me today in my small cabin in the woods.” Hope this is also something you’ll write about!
I would bet, like me, you hate the term ‘woke’ but in effect, reading Caste, was an ‘awakening.’ “there is no going back after reading this book.” In it’s original usage as a term, I think that’s what ‘woke’ meant - not to be fooled by the status quo or the official position of things.
I tried to get through Paul Mason’s Post Capitalism, but I got bogged down in the complexity and didn’t get back to it. Years later it’s bookmarked before the 50% mark
I hope to read these books myself eventually. I must say the title ‘The Road to Serfdom’ ironically reminds me of was the left-wing economist Yanis Varafoukis fears is replacing capitalism - not communism but TechnoFeudalism, a form of serfdom in itself.
Me again! I’m reading and commenting in parts? Given your reading, when would you say capitalism begun? My son asked me exactly this the other day - and I would have guessed around the time of trading of African people to be enslaved workers in the New World economy. But that wasn’t a highly informed guess. What would you say after reading the book?
“I learned much in those years, and much of that learning feeds me today in my small cabin in the woods.” Hope this is also something you’ll write about!
I would bet, like me, you hate the term ‘woke’ but in effect, reading Caste, was an ‘awakening.’ “there is no going back after reading this book.” In it’s original usage as a term, I think that’s what ‘woke’ meant - not to be fooled by the status quo or the official position of things.
I tried to get through Paul Mason’s Post Capitalism, but I got bogged down in the complexity and didn’t get back to it. Years later it’s bookmarked before the 50% mark