Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Jeff J. Brown interviewed on Wall St. for Main St., 2015.6.27

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Jeff J. Brown interviewed on Wall St. for Main St., 2015.6.27

Click here to access a 48 minute podcast interview posted on 44Days conducted by Wall Street for Main Street with Jeff J. Brown who is currently living and working in China. (I found the audio production much more even on the SoundCloud link than Windows Media Audio which is presented in the article. With the latter I had to keep turning up the sound when Brown was speaking, and down when the interviewer was speaking.)

I am posting this interview not because it sheds light on capitalism in general, but because it provides via Jeff Brown what I regard as authentic information about China which is difficult for Americans to access. China is becoming a major player in the world's economic and political scenes, and we simply must know what is going on there.