Our Passageway To Real Socio-Economic Change Requires A Better Framing.
Transcending “Better” Capitalism; More Succinct than “Utopian” Socialism. Photo by Intricate Explorer on Unsplash . . Essay originally published on Medium . . Each American as a different view of what capitalism and socialism mean, or what they expect from these two theories of economics, and their political underpinnings. Some portion of Americans dislike both, but most have stronger negative or positive feelings about one or the other. “Better” capitalism, for many Americans, may just mean more socialism plugged into capitalism, or those focused on socialism as the path forward may dislike my use of the term utopia. Yet that is a big problem with both capitalism and socialism; Americans are all over the map on how they perceive each theory because our understanding of both is varied, and is anchored at several levels. Plus each can be multilayered with myth, and misinformation, encouraged or directed by frien...