The Zeitgeist Movement

 “Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system"

My communist / socialist friends would probably agree with that.

And they might, in fact, be right about that.

But just because someone has identified an aspect - or even THE CENTRAL aspect  - of a problem, does not mean they’ve identified a real-world solution. And, for complex “cloud problems” such as world economies, international conflict, or global climate change, they cannot guarantee that their intervention will not make things worse.

“The Zeitgeist Movement is an activist movement established in the United States in 2008 by Peter Joseph. The group is critical of market capitalism, describing it as structurally corrupt and wasteful of resources. The group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading, and embraces sustainable ecology and scientific administration of society. VC Reporter's Shane Cohn summarized the movement's charter as: "Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system".”

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“An article in the Journal of Contemporary Religion describes the movement as an example of a "conspirituality", a synthesis of New Age spirituality and conspiracy theory.

“Michelle Goldberg of Tablet Magazine called the movement "the world's first Internet-based apocalyptic cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity." In her opinion, the movement is "devoted to a kind of sci-fi planetary communism", and the 2007 documentary that "sparked" the movement was "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories."”

The Zeitgeist Movement - Wikipedia