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A review by brannonkrkhuang
Stories We Tell Ourselves by Richard Holloway
1.0
Not quite what I was hoping this would be. He spent a lot of time writing in a way that just seemed defeatist. Communism and Socialism are painted as these evil systems that can only possibly lead to massive death and destruction, which is, frankly, ridiculous when you look into the death toll of capitalism, which is astronomically worse. It seems that he's still bought into this "sin nature" concept and has shrugged his shoulders and given up on a better world. "Oh well, people will always be evil and the evil people will always have power and that's OK, because any challenge to the status quo is worse."
The fact is, capitalism is a cancer. Corporations and billionaires think they can keep burning the planet's resources, but they can't, because our resources will run out, and just like how cancer in the body expands until it can't anymore and it kills the body, the cancer of capitalism will kill the earth.
Whatever story you tell yourself, don't shrug your shoulders and accept the horrors happening around us. Unite, organize, and work toward a better world.
The fact is, capitalism is a cancer. Corporations and billionaires think they can keep burning the planet's resources, but they can't, because our resources will run out, and just like how cancer in the body expands until it can't anymore and it kills the body, the cancer of capitalism will kill the earth.
Whatever story you tell yourself, don't shrug your shoulders and accept the horrors happening around us. Unite, organize, and work toward a better world.