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.
And a few more words from Russell Brand, anti-capitalist poster boy...
"When pressurised by Paxman to come up with a specific plan of how the alternative would work, Brand suggests:
A socialist egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth, [with] heavy taxation of corporations...I think the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced...I say profit is a filthy word, because wherever there is a profit there is also a deficit." https://web.archive.org/web/20201111191127/https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2013/no-1312-december-2013/russell-brand-attacks-capitalism/
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.
PDF: https://cdn.mises.org/Socialism%20An%20Economic%20and%20Sociological%20Analysis_3.pdf