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Our Passageway To Real Socio-Economic Change Requires A Better Framing.
Transcending “Better” Capitalism; More Succinct than “Utopian” Socialism.
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 friend and foe.
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However, I am not here to defend either, or do a dissertation on why one is better than the other. Rather, my focus will be to offer a better way that is devoid of their theoretical inconsistencies and explanatory complications. Capitalism is dominant in America for many reasons that have almost nothing to do with its actual value to our democracy and American workers. Making socialism the dominant economic structure is fraught with many political and ideological hurdles.
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Domination is not the only signifier of success, and often not a good one. Like White Europeans were not the dominate “race” because they were the best people to dominate everyone else, their dominance was due to their fiercer firepower, and disease spreading prowess. Neither were American Indians a lesser people because they did not cross the Atlantic ocean to genocide nearly every White European. We got to where we are today because all the people in question did what they did, when they could do it. While that statement is not much more than a general truism, which lacks pertinent nuance, the reality in it is significant enough to proceed with, as a basic theory to support the progress I am recommending. We cannot accomplish what we do not do.
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