What's striking about #capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social #progress, no commitment to improving #human #welfare or #ecology. All we get is the #chaos of #profit-oriented #production & #accumulation as the world burns around us.
Bizarrely, some claim that this feature of #capitalism is a "strength", because the direction of #production becomes the sum of individuals' desires.
But this is clearly false. Capitalism does *not* enable all people to have an #equal say in the direction of production.
On the contrary, #production under #capitalism is strikingly undemocratic. It is controlled overwhelmingly by the few who hold most of the power over #finance, #wealth, #capital & investible #assets: the large #financial firms, the #commercial #banks, the #monopoly #corporations, & the 1%.
If the idea is that all people should have an #equal say in the direction of #production, then what we need is #economic democracy. Economic #democracy- at the level of #private firms, #public services, & #finance - would enable us to direct production in more socially beneficial ways.
Whoever controls #production, & the #surplus we produce, determines the shape & direction of our #civilization. If we do not have #democratic control over our production & surplus then we can hardly say we live in a #democracy.
Total non sequitur. "Not everyone has an equal say" does not disprove "this is the sum of individual desires".
I might as well claim that 20 is not the sum of 15 and 5 because 5 does not equal 15.