Capitalism’s Obituary “…capitalism has died.*

When a person dies, it is over all at once, like turning out a light.  Capitalism describes an economy of hundreds of millions, even billions, of people.  Capitalism lives and dies person by person, one by one, day after day, year after year.  We receive news of a death as that of a person, but it is at the same time news of the death of that part of what we call our society, our civilization, our way of life.  John Donne (1572-1631) expressed it so beautifully in 1623.

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”