So when was it, that I realized I was hostile to, angry with, and wanted to get rid of, capitalism?
Growing up under the US culture, it was the loudest bragging people had about the culture of the US; how capitalism gave it its wealth, its position in the world as number one richest country.
No. When I, at 18, decided to have a political analysis for things, it became really obvious big things like war, hunger--
I mean, look behind almost everything I wanted different and you could just see that what ruled the world was greed and power over others, which are the two hallmarks of capitalism to me.
The idea that rich--it suddenly hit me to go: now rich can be your friends, or it can be the fact that you've found your fantasy ice cream for the day.
Or you've read a paragraph in a book that you reread, and reread, and are you gonna do a fourth reread? I don't know.
But when I really found out that in this country rich means money, and that's when I wanted to change something, capitalism was always there as part of the problem; in many cases, it was a problem.
So I look at different systems. In a way, it seems that capitalism even infected other systems. Which is why I say that I'm an idealistic communist, in this country, like Jesus was a communist, so as not to confuse what people thought Russia was, was communist.
In my mind, [Russia] was another weird way to present capitalism: men having power, and with power having money, and bossing people around.
Yeah, money is not the problem. It's just a vehicle, as much as a vehicle for peace and justice and ending hunger
It's just a little, tiny instrument for which if you have any excess, let it be used for change, even if it's a dollar. If you have an extra dollar, donate it to your nonprofit of choice, even me! (nyak, nyak, nyak)
