If we don't rein in Capitalism by reconstructing a functioning Welfare State- drudgery is the fate for most people.
jmsmith.substack.com
It’s hard to believe that over thirty thousands words of Harry Leslie Smith’s The Green and Pleasant Land have been published on this Substack, over the last six months. The chapter selections from it tell a true story about the lives of working- class people, who lived during a time of political and economic extremities during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. So many of our ancestors lived that life, and the trajectory neoliberalism has taken means present and future generations will live those same lives, unless we fight against the tide of fascism consuming our democracies.
If we don't rein in Capitalism by reconstructing a functioning Welfare State- drudgery is the fate for most people.
If we don't rein in Capitalism by…
If we don't rein in Capitalism by reconstructing a functioning Welfare State- drudgery is the fate for most people.
It’s hard to believe that over thirty thousands words of Harry Leslie Smith’s The Green and Pleasant Land have been published on this Substack, over the last six months. The chapter selections from it tell a true story about the lives of working- class people, who lived during a time of political and economic extremities during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. So many of our ancestors lived that life, and the trajectory neoliberalism has taken means present and future generations will live those same lives, unless we fight against the tide of fascism consuming our democracies.