D’s Reviews > Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism > Status Update

His description of 2008 is so fucking stupid. Even acknowledging that just saying ‘banker greed’ isn’t enough, he takes us on a longwinded story of an increase in worldwide profit-taking to come back to the same answer, ‘banker greed’. He uses terms so child-like that I wonder who else is reading this thing. Do they even make leftist books for adults?

Chapter 2: pop-Econ recipe: bring a familiar story to get the readers attention. Mad Men. Don Draper’s marketing savvy is actually a new kind of capitalism because it preys on your vulnerable emotion. If everything is always detailed and new, then capitalism can seem transient. Soon a book will be written about the exact day the first seed was planted on a non-feudal, capitalist farm. Retarded

through chapter 1 I need to write my thoughts down, a first for me, because I think I might hate this book.
1. Pushing the dual meanings of all the buzz words: labor, capital, etc. Power capital and commodity capital. In other words, power and money. Not that deep. Labor and Experiential labor: work and hard work, whatever.
2. All the double talk of light so you can include the Einstein quotes on socialism