Anti-Cap. Meetup 12/19/10---The Road NOT Taken

This week's episode of the Anti-Capitalist Meetup is about someone who in his day was not necessarily considered an anti-capitalist in the sense that most people here consider themselves to be. But in his day, John Kenneth Galbraith was not only a harsh critic of the capitialist system, he also envisioned a more democratic and socialistic future as discussed in his 1973 book Economics and the Public Purpose. His ideas were met with polite apathy, and although he still wrote well-received books, advised Presidents and the like until his death in 2006, his influence was never the same as his 1950s-early 1970s heyday. We are much worse off for that waning influence and we suffer for it to this day.