The best hope for progress on the Occupy Wall Street movement’s complaints is, interestingly enough, capitalism.
Not capitalism for the few and privileged, but capitalism for all. Not the capitalism of unbridled greed, human mechanization, and economic violence, but the capitalism of opportunity, creative enterprise, and personal aspirations.
Kudos to all who call attention to and stand against the rapacious greed and economic violence of some of our wealthy and powerful.
We are left, though, with the problem of defining what is a good and just economic/political order. We are left with the problem of how to proceed. It is (more…)