Billy Bragg: Are You Ready for the Revolution?

from The Guardian ..

“Free market capitalism,” declares Bragg cheerfully, sucking on a mineral water, “is in crisis.” … “All growth is good – that was a dogma shared by all the parties,” Bragg says. “But when you’ve got a chancellor saying, ‘I can’t do that because the markets won’t like it …’ Well, a society run by the market isn’t a democracy. The market’s like fire, you know? Constrain it, harness it, and it’ll provide you with warmth and light and heat for your cooking … Let it rip, and it’ll destroy everything you hold dear.”

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