Australia a communist State, page-360

I simply don’t like labels or the thinking that implies you can’t somehow find a middle path - be more intentional about what is controlled and what is not and be more certain about what belongs to the public and what is free for the picking. I don’t have a problem with competition in its own right because wherever there is a monopoly there is inefficiency. And I don’t like inefficiency in any way shape of form. I also don’t like unfettered greed because I think it bears the seeds of destruction.

and I think that is no different from what you are saying.

but because I don’t like greed I also don’t like the winner takes all view of how an economy should work. Monarchies and their cabal of hangers on were the consequences of a system in which the best brawlers owned people - the means of production until people got sick of them

capitalism is far less of a distance from that then you might think and it has simply created a different type of elite with machinery and people at their disposal - and increasingly digital technology.

if you look at Marx’s writing he suggests that capitalism effectively eats itself. What I think he didn’t have insight into was the way technology might develop. it is very possible that it will not eat itself but simply create a society with such huge divisions that it is as dystopian as the movies.