Britain faces huge challenges: inequality public services under constant pressure climate
change - and in the long term the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence. At the
same time the political and economic elite seem to have reached an impasse: there is a sense
that things can only get worse. In Why Capitalists Need Communists Charles Seaford
demonstrates that this need not be that radical progressive change is perfectly possible and
that the polarisation and nostalgia afflicting us is not inevitable. History shows that it is
precisely when the ruling elite loses confidence - which it has - that significant change
happens and that new alliances are formed to take over. Tackling the challenges will take
planning redistribution re-fashioned business and finance and a new ideology - one which
confirms that we really can create the conditions for more people to flourish. But this is not
a pipe-dream. This book sets out just how this can come about based on interviews with over 50
business people politicians analysts and activists. Everyone with an interest in the future
should read it.
