Tag: capitalism

Looking Backwards: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy

Jun 23, 2018

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sbhowell

in Economics, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Science Fiction

Rating: 3/5, average Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy was written in 1887 and was the third best-selling novel of its time after Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Ben Hur. It also inspired “Bellamy societies” who met to discuss Bellamy’s work or start utopian communities based off of the society in Looking Backward. Despite the novel’s popularity at the time,…
Work: Capitalism, Economics, Resistance by Crimethinc

Apr 6, 2018

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sbhowell

in Economics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics

Rating: 3/5, average This is a decent, accessible primer to anti-capitalist thought (with lots of pictures!). It’s main failing, which is common to a lot of anti-capitalist stuff, is that it goes into detail about the evils of capitalism and gives very little attention to solutions, improvements, or alternatives to capitalism. It starts off with…