Capitalism in 2025 is a wild beast that needs to be slain

That the issue is and has always been capitalism falls into the category of an accomplished fact. And how could it not? Because chaos everywhere, cohesion nowhere, constitutes the grim fruits of this anti-human economic and value system — one that kills everything in its path, up to and including the planet.

When Adam Smith wrote his classic capitalist bible, Wealth of Nations — published in 1776, the same year as the US Declaration of Independence — the centre of the world that was western Europe at the time had just emerged in from its feudal swaddling clothes. The result was a rural economy, sufficient to meet the needs of a bone idle landed gentry for whom labour was the curse of the lower orders, being forced to make way for its urban variant required to meet the needs of a rising mercantile class.

Said class of merchants were the harbingers of the future as, per Karl Marx, ‘All that was solid melted into air, and all that was holy was profaned.’

Adam Smith:

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.