I was interviewed yesterday by Nqaba Mabece of SAFM about my Daily Maverick column about the challenges that face journalists and journalism. Below is a screenshot of the column. Full column can be read, here.
Category: Capitalism
Paved Paradise
Armstrong Williams adds MAGAvoice to Tiresome Conversation
The arc of historical capitalism is bending down, way down from its dizzying heights of its golden age, between 1945 and the early 1970s. By the early 1990s, when liberal capitalism stood triumphant, there was a general sense among people who shared ideological solidarities and affiliations, that the war was over and the good people…
Capitalism Surprise
Capitalism and capitalists rarely surprise…. They really do take alienation to the extreme. Who needs the sagacity of Karl Marx, when Adam Smith said, capitalism’s division of labour turns workers ‘stupid’ and ‘ignorant’ – apparently into captivity and even death on the job. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple…