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Despite the claim that there is no alternative, there is something invisibly worthy in claiming that the way we live now is not the only way humans can live. Who knows what that inertia may lead to?

The anti-capitalist project - based off my brief and limited political philosophy reading - seems to be an infinite one: not only is there much to build but more imperatively, there is an entire world to destroy.



Yeah... um... how about making sure we have an alternative that not only works, but works better, before we get to the destroying part?


The traditional vision of a total revolution in which the old regime is destroyed and utopia is born phoenix-like in its ashes is unhelpful. Rational conservatism advises in favour of the stuttered and experimental socialisation of ownership and services. Socialising health, housing and transport, and dispersing wealth throughout society through progressive stock remuneration for workers and/or a fixed ownership stake in an economy-wide index fund at birth, could lead to the gradual emergence of a qualitatively different kind of society.




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