“The problem lies within the system,” says Marjorie Kelly when discussing the polycrisis now upon us – inequalities, climate change, biodiversity loss, and rising authoritarianism. Drawing insights from her book, Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises, I recently interviewed Marjorie about what went wrong with the very foundations of our economy and society, and what possible necessary changes could be.
Marjorie is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative, a non-profit working to catalyze the creation of a democratic economy. This new book is a culmination of Marjorie’s 30 years of work as a journalist, theorist