Sublime

Capitalism aims at equality of opportunity, socialism at equality of outcome.

Capitalism, he noted, is not something imposed on us by some outside force. It only exists because every day we wake up and continue to produce it. If we woke up one morning and all collectively decided to produce something else, then we wouldn’t have capitalism anymore. This is the ultimate revolutionary question: what are the conditions that woul

In short, I read Marx as I read all of the influential historical thinkers—from a dialectical point of view, combining a partial yes and a partial no. Insofar as Marx posited a metaphysical materialism, an ethical relativism, and a strangulating totalitarianism, I responded with an unambiguous no; but insofar as he pointed to weaknesses of traditio

Yet nearly 250 years after Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, the publication most committed to defending his legacy was now uncertain whether one of the central premises of his thinking would endure for much longer. Such doubt resides at the very heart of what the Third Disruption means. If capital can become labour – if tools produced by humans c

This proletariat is being objectively reinforced by the virtual elimination of the peasantry and by the increasing degree to which the “service” sectors and intellectual professions are being subjected to factorylike working conditions.

Today the inability of small farms to use the best machinery profitably is again forcing agriculture into large-scale production under capitalistic or communistic ownership. It was once said that “civilization is a parasite on the man with the hoe,”33 but the man with the hoe no longer exists; he is now a “hand” at the wheel of a tractor or a combi

La propriété est une condition préalable de l’inégalité à long terme. À la suite de la révolution agricole, la propriété s’est multipliée et, avec elle, l’inégalité. Les humains devenant propriétaires de la terre, des animaux, des plantes et des outils, sont apparues des sociétés hiérarchiques rigides avec de petites élites monopolisant le gros des

Dans L'Homme révolté, Varlet se trouve associé à Proudhon. Rien que de très normal, car Proudhon le fédéraliste a été très critique à l'endroit de cette Révolution française ayant permis l'avènement de droits formels et réalisé le passage de la féodalité à la bourgeoisie : la vie quotidienne des travailleurs, des ouvriers, des paysans n'a pas du to