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• Updated: Thu, Aug 26 2010 4:32 PM
The Capitalist Manifesto: How to Modernize Capitalism from
Feudalism to Democracy
By Adam
There is a specter haunting the planet. It is the specter of the failure of Western
capitalism.
All that is solid -- jobs, homes, retirement savings -- melts into air. Our cock-a-hoop
capitalism is staring into a pesky abyss which is either Lacan's mirror or the funky
Weltschmerz of its own behind.
Yet far away in communist China, capitalism is alive and well -- maybe because China
is not a democracy.
In Western democracies, capitalism is in crisis -- maybe because capitalism is not
democratic.
The fact is that capitalism is a feudal system, which therefore works well in a feudal