After Capitalism...

[macdoc]

I suspect that heavily regulated capitalism might indeed provide a reasonable basis for social organisation. But how exactly do you think this is going to happen

you THINK??....there are several nations with Norway, Sweden , Denmark and perhaps Switzerland as examples that DO.....not just natter about it.

Australia COULD ....by having the guts to break up the media concentration and Canada COULD by rooting out corporate malfeasance instead being of being willing allies. ( some provinces do a reasonable job - Quebec and Ontario showing some backbone recently )

A start might be to ban lawyers and their fucking adversarial mindset from running for office. Give Auditors General and other regulatory bodies teeth to act against predation. Tax policies to inhibit speculation on basics like shelter.

Roosevelt gave Truman almost unlimited power to root out war profiteering in WWII and he did a brilliant job of it.

Japan is unique due to its culture of up/down responsibility which cannot be exported.

Australian unions have buffered you against the crap we are seeing elsewhere of the hollowed out middle class expolited by corporate interests. But corrupt and uncooperative unions have to be checked as well.

The US - like most fading empires is hopelessly corrupt....even its own citizens don't think its fixable.

[pErvinalia]

No, that doesn't answer the question of how it will happen. It's easy to identify the changes needed to make it happen, and in fact most people want a majority of these changes. The real question is how do you get it through politically? Despite people wanting these things, they keep voting for the neoliberal status quo. In fact, inequality, tax cuts, and welfare cuts are increasing every year (on average). So I ask you again, how do you think these changes are actually going to be made? The obvious answer is that they aren't, as the political class is too entrenched with corporatism to listen to what the people actually want anymore. Wake up, Mac.