The Dorothy Syndrome
Why Breaking With the Two Corporate Parties and Forming a Labor Party is the Next, Best Step As demonstrated in The Problem is Capitalism , the primary cause of economic, social, political and environmental crises facing the world today is capitalism. The capitalist economic system—which puts production for private profit and private ownership of major industries above all other considerations—is wracked by internal, systemic contradictions which are inexorably hurling it toward the abyss, dragging all of us along in its wake. We identified several essential features of economic wealth and their relation to the capitalist system: For the past twelve thousand years, the average human has been able to produce more value in a day, a month or a year than they can possibly consume in that time. And, labor productivity has increased steadily over the years. All value is produced by labor. There is no other source of value. Profit is the value produced by