Brand's weltanschauung is comparable to G.K. Chesterton's. He is critical of Hudge and Gudge (i.e. big government and big business), wary of too much centralization, a proponent of localism and the sovereignty of the family, an opponent of the tyranny of the 'medicine men' and jingoism, and is pro-private property (like Chesterton, Brand is certain that private property is good, but thinks that society would be more cohesive if more people had some).
You say he's anti-capitalist, but would point out that his low-resolution definition of capitalism is actually a criticism of corporatism and crony capitalism, both detestable transmogrifications.
I refer you to Ludwig von Mises' 1922 'Socialism'. You'll soon recognize that what we today call capitalism is anything but; that we do not enjoy in the West anything resembling the free markets we rhetorically boast of.
Brand's weltanschauung is comparable to G.K. Chesterton's. He is critical of Hudge and Gudge (i.e. big government and big business), wary of too much centralization, a proponent of localism and the sovereignty of the family, an opponent of the tyranny of the 'medicine men' and jingoism, and is pro-private property (like Chesterton, Brand is certain that private property is good, but thinks that society would be more cohesive if more people had some).
You say he's anti-capitalist, but would point out that his low-resolution definition of capitalism is actually a criticism of corporatism and crony capitalism, both detestable transmogrifications.
I refer you to Ludwig von Mises' 1922 'Socialism'. You'll soon recognize that what we today call capitalism is anything but; that we do not enjoy in the West anything resembling the free markets we rhetorically boast of.
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