The most vital strain of thought in "Why I Am Not a Feminist" is Crispin's unforgiving indictment of individualism and capitalism, value systems that she argues have severely warped feminism, encouraging women to think of the movement only insofar as it leads to individual gains.
"He understood America as being a land of opportunity, understood the value of capitalism, the value of hard work, personal responsibility," Leo told me.
Throughout the slave period, Black children were regularly separated from their parents and sold to other plantations -- both their childhood and humanity were denied in the face of a racial capitalism that valued only their value as a commodity and source of labor.
Can we begin to ask whether our most comfortable assumptions, our definitions of American capitalism, American values and the American dream, are grounded in a manipulative ideology?
Corporate responsibility, connected capitalism, shared values -- whatever you call it -- matters to me.
In such a future, everyone would be able to develop his or her potential to the fullest, free from a major source of insecurity seldom mentioned more than half a century later: rampant technology deployed by a rabid capitalism that values profits above people. .
He claims to have found nothing less than a formula for reinventing capitalism: "shared value".
John Cadbury, who founded a tea-and-coffee shop in Birmingham in 1824, practiced a brand of "Quaker capitalism" that valued hard work and "wealth creation for the benefit of the workers, the local community, and society at large," rather than large profits only for the entrepreneurs themselves.
(See "Capitalism 2.0: Value Creation versus Value Destruction").. Whatever system emerges as we debug capitalism 1.0, there is no doubt in my mind that the cornerstone of that system will need to be innovation and entrepreneurship.
