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“Good in theory, bad in practice.” Sure, the concept sounds nice, but people aren’t very nice, right? Isn’t capitalism much more suited to human nature—a nature dominated by competitiveness and venality?
Socialists don’t believe these truisms. They don’t view history as a mere chronicle of cruelty and selfishness. They also see countless acts of empathy, reciprocity, and love. People are complex: they do unspeakable things, but they also engage in remarkable acts of kindness and, even in difficult situations, show deep regard for others.
Adaner Usmani is a graduate student at New York University and on the board of “New Politics.”
Filmed at Verso Books in Brooklyn, March 14, 2017. Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen, The New York Times bestselling authors of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, give a gripping postmortem of Hillary Clinton’s fraught 2016 presidential run. Jonathan Allen, head of content for Sidewire, and Amie Parnes, Senior White House Correspondent, The Hill, detail never-before-heard stories of how the lack of a clear campaign message, the internal conflict among Clinton operatives and Clinton’s inability to understand the 2016 electorate led to a loss that shocked the nation. Jonathan Alter, award-winning author and reporter, moderates.
