Katy Preen
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read

Until this point in our history, many have seen Capitalism / Neoliberalism as the endpoint of human civilisation. Yet these ideologies have not solved all the world’s problems and have created some of their own. Do you see a possible route to an equitable and more productive society from Capitalism to Social Democracy to Democratic Socialism? And what then — could there be a more effective economic model that we’ve not discovered yet?

I don’t know if the route proposed above is the right one, or even if it’s in the right direction. But it seems to be the better of the two options we have (head left, or head right). In terms of your descriptions of the two systems, these are the best practical definitions I’ve seen so far. Although I always thought that the USSR and present-day China were/are state-planned Capitalism (it really pisses conservatives off when you say this) rather than Socialism, although there may not be much of a distinction.

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