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The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy offers people -- especially young people whose minds aren't wholly owned by establishment thinking -- a basis for genuine optimism. A new way to think about reshaping American life. A casebook for transforming the economic order in fundamental ways -- big ideas and actions neither Dems nor Republicans would presently touch. Yet plain-wrapper citizens are already working on them in various ways. Winning victories toward the day when a new social reality emerges to generate new politics.
Are we truly free when most Americans work in a "master-servant relationship" inherited from feudalism? If we are so wealthy as a nation (and we are), why are so many people confined and trampled in their lives, feeling desperate amid the abundance? And does our prosperity really require business and finance to wantonly destroy nature, not to mention families, communities, our deepest human values?
The book confronts such questions, not as theory, but in concrete reality. It explains the sources of the destruction and injury, the gross inequalities that emanate from a steepening pyramid of power. It describes the goals and strategies of Americans working to create a different, more humane reality.
�William Greider
at Tom Tomorrow 09.12.03