ELITE POWER

elite power is the single most retarding force resisting the necessary changes in the human endeavor on earth. it is poor in most nations, bad in china, america, russia, most south american countries; it is horrible in places like syria, saudi arabia, egypt, iran and many of the countries of africa. forgive me if i have forgotten notable offenders, but you get the idea: social democracy truly needs to be tried somewhere at least once beyond scandinavia and new zealand before we give it up and look elsewhere. 

and don't talk to me about capitalist democracy, an oxymoron. private accumulation of capital is a system entirely structured around endless growth on a finite planet with a limited carrying capacity. when i was a small child there were less than two billion living humans on earth; now that i am old, there are over seven billion. do you think the small children alive today will see a growth factor in human population of four by the time they are old? do you think we are heading for a planet of twenty-five or thirty billion?

think again. and think again about elitism, including its growth-dependent private capital iteration.