Waking From Capitalism: 
Why and How, by Eric Schechter.
WHY is because we've all been
fooled and it's killing us.
HOW starts with getting more
people talking about it.
Here's a simplified history: For
200,000 years we were hunter-
gatherers, and genetically 
that's still who we are.
We shared as equals, and that's
still what we teach our kids,
still what we revert to in crisis.
But 10,000 years ago we replaced
sharing and equality with property
and hierarchy. That was our
big mistake. Though many
people don't see it, that
replacement has caused war, poverty,
plutocracy, all the cruelties of
the world, and it's 
about to kill us all. I'll
explain. Hierarchy 
concentrates power.  Power
corrupts those who have it and 
attracts those who are already
corrupt. We see this in 
workplace bullying, police
brutality, prison 
torture, wars for profit,
and politicians' lies. And what
about property? If we don't
share, we trade. That favors 
the trader who was
already in the stronger
bargaining position,
making him stronger still,
concentrating power,
increasing inequality, which is now huge.
War and poverty persist because ending
them wouldn't make the rich
richer.  Our so-called "democracy"
is a sham: Statistics
prove that public policy
favors the wealthy class. That will
only cease when we no longer
HAVE a wealthy class. That
requires a very different economic
system.
The "efficiency of the market" is a lie.
EXTERNALITIES are the destructive
unmeasured side effects of trade. Among 
them is GLOBAL WARMING, which is
coming bigger, faster, sooner, 
more abruptly than most
people realize, because 
climate activists have
overlooked or understated feed-
back loops and tipping points.
On our present course I'm expecting
worldwide famine by 2030
and human extinction by 2040.
And that's just the material 
side. This system crushes
our souls too. Our workplaces 
are dictatorships,
making us commodities to
be exploited or discarded;
that's why we hate Mondays.
Separate property gives us the illusion
of separate lives, despite global
warming and the pandemic.
Competition and unjustifiable wars 
kill empathy, leaving us with hate,
fear, greed, lies, and random shootings.
We'll only become safe in a culture of
caring and sharing that 
leaves no one behind,
so no one WANTS to hurt
us. We need big changes --
and to avert climate apocalypse 
we need them right away.
But plutocrats won't and 
CAN'T make big changes,
because they can't look beyond the
short-term profits keeping them in power.
So our only hope is global
ecosocialist revolution.
The first step is to get more 
people talking about it.
Join the conversation. 
Distribute this essay
or write your own. The transcript 
for this video, formatted
as a leaflet, plus related 
links, can be found at a
webpage I've linked in the "about" 
section of the Youtube page
for this video. -- Be well.
