Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves
Further Adventures in the Territories of Hope
Solnit, Rebecca
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175335/tomgram%3A_rebecca_solnit%2C_a_shadow_government_of_kindness
Date Written: 2010-12-21
Publisher: TomDispatch
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX12810
Capitalism is only kept going by this army of anti-capitalists, who constantly exert their powers to clean up after it, and at least partially compensate for its destructiveness. Behind the system we all know, in other words, is a shadow system of kindness, the other invisible hand. Much of its work now lies in simply undoing the depredations of the official system.
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