We do not live on Big Rock Candy Mountain, and we never will. But, we do have the
industrial technology to live in a more sustainable economy of plenty.





In a post-scarcity and post-capitalist society, those who want the finest chocolate will
have free access to the finest chocolate.




There is poverty and hunger, even in capitalist countries, because capitalism does not
distribute goods according to need, but according to ability to purchase. There is less
poverty and hunger in capitalist countries, largely because there is both public welfare,
and there are private charities to assist where capitalism fails.





There has never been a democratic expropriation of industrial and agricultural property
in a modern physically-developed, materially-advanced national society. We cannot say
with certainty what would happen if, in the United States, or in Europe, the material
productive forces were appropriated by the citizens using a democratic and legal
process, such as a social use of the statist practice of eminent domain.





I do not pretend, or assert, that the resources available to human beings to supply
our needs are infinite, or could be infinite. I advocate a sustainable economy, not a
consumerist economy.  I advocate a conservationist economy that balances
economic production with ecological prudence.





No matter if the political economy is capitalist or democratic, we the people simply
must limit our consumption in order to conserve every natural resource, and in order
to protect and preserve the natural environment. Ecology is not a capitalist vs. socialist
controversy; it is a debate about the survival of the human species.





Most of the people in the United States, who live without acute poverty, work more than
would be necessary for prosperity in a social-democratic commonwealth. We are
over-worked. We escape material poverty; but, we do not enjoy life fully.  We are
miserable and impaired. The poverty of so many is a spiritual poverty, an existential
death, a personal mediocrity.





At present, where there is modern industrialism, there is also modern capitalism.
There are factors, other than capitalism, which have served to reduce so much of
the poverty that human beings have had to endure for a long time.  Science and altruism
have done far more than would or could capitalism by itself alone.





"If they really believe there is danger from the Negro, it must be because they do not
intend to give him justice."
-- Booker Taliaferro Washington





Every human being has the potential, the freedom to live a messianic life. We do not
need a messiah, or a führer. We need only govern our individual selves, such that a
messiah is not thought to be necessary, such that a führer is not longer believed to
be our need.





"Not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd."
-- William Wordsworth





We can discover if comprehensive democracy can ever work, if radical anarchism can
every work. We can experiment with more democracy, with more anarchism, until we
get it right, until we make it flower. Anarchism is a dream; democracy is a dream.  It is
human nature to dream of something better;  it is also human nature to create something
better.




"The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have kept their ability to
dream great dreams."
-- Walter Bowie




"We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection."
-- Thomas Jefferson