Greg Joly | Scott Nearing's Thoughts on Socialism

Greg Joly is an independent scholar who has lived in Jamaica Vermont since 1990. Due to his on-site nearness to people and documents related to the Nearing's time in Vermont, he has been able to amass a quality of information concerning the Nearing's sojourn in the Green Mountain state that might otherwise be improbable. He and his wife have homesteaded off-grid for the past 2 decades just seven "as the crow flies" miles from the Nearing's original Forest Farm, thus fostering a familiarization with the demands of Vermont homesteading. For the past 2 decades, Joly has been a Steward at the Good Life Center and has also served as its Chair Person of the Board.

References for the Speech

By Scott Nearing:
1908 - Economics
1920 - The Next Step
1944 - United World

Modern Sources of Interest:

Capitalism: A Ghost Story
By Arunbhati Roy

The Young Turks: Marxian Economics Vs. Capitalism
By R.D. Wolff

The New Basis of Civilization
By Simon Patten

Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism
By Paul Mattick

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, And the Future of the Global Economy
By Mervyn King

Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
By Kevin Bales

Also, Some Recent Articles:

"Socialism, American-Style"
By Gar Alperovitz & Thomas H. Hanna
NY Times, Op-Ed, 23 July 2015

On the decentralization, anti-authoritarian organizational structure of The Black Lives Matter movement:
"The Matter of Black Lives"
By Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, March 14, 2016, pp. 34-40,