Ourmerica

Let me conclude by offering a slogan: "The US can do better than corporate capitalism." Let that be an idea and a debate that this renewed movement can engage. Doing so would give an immense gift to the US and the world. It would break through the taboo, finally subjecting capitalism to the critiques and debates it has evaded for far too long – and at far too great a cost to all of us. -Richard Wolff

This is all fine and well, but can "the US" do better? I think not. I think that the end of corporate capitalism necessitates the end of the United States. I think there is a tendency among many lefties to look at capitalism as a sort of parasite growing in the belly of the beast, but that is like blaming the hookworm for the bear that's gnawing on your guts.