I thin that the perspective of this reading is very interesting. It makes many assumptions about huan nature that are contradictory with other ideologies. Fvor example, he says that in the end humans cooperating for the greater good of the community will be beneficial for everyone. This is contradicted by some ideas others including Hobbes, who think that people are lzy and untrustworthy and without any structure nothing will be accomplished. The other assumptions that are made in this reading are that humans will always be overcome by greed. I do think that this is very much true about human nature but there are many exceptions.

Capitalism he says is the main enemy of Socialism. He says that capitalism is leading to the destruction of society and the environment, and that the socialist reforms that can be made will help restrain the devestation brought on by capitalism which is fed by human greed.

I agree with some of his points, that our capitalist society is leading to the destruction of our environment, but i also think that capitalism in our society is adjusting to the retraints of the environment, mainly by limitations of our government, and not by choice. I disagree on the other hand, with the points he makes about human nature. That for socialism to work people will need to keep to it and keep the faith. I think that in our society today, people are far too often too comfortable with where they are at, and will often takethe easy way out to save themelves some trouble. I do think that humans still cooperate for the greater good, but only to a certain point.