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Global capitalism now has no serious rivals. But it could destroy itself

by @ Thursday, March 8th, 2007. Filed under Economy, Environment
earthfromorbit.jpg[Note from SolidarityEconomy.net Editors: This article is significant because of its source. Timothy Garton Ash is no Leftist. He’s a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford (where Milton Friedman held forth until his recent death). He’s always been fiercely anti-communist.] Our planet cannot long sustain the momentous worldwide embrace of the manufacture of desires by Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does (more...)

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