There is a growing realisation that capitalism as it is practiced now is not working any better than communism was in Russia before the fall of the Berlin Wall. There are two routes opening up to us now, either the Chinese version of capitalism involving a totalitarian government basically using their workforce as indentured slaves and not allowing any dissent or criticism of the system and ruling elite (we're on the road to this already) whilst increasing inequality and attempting to keep the middle classes pacified by selling them 'stuff' they don't need. Zero hours contracts and the erosion of workers rights, the heavy-handed policing of virtually every sign of dissent and the propaganda machine of right-wing, oligarch-owned media are evidence of this nightmare becoming the norm. It's why the tories and their corporate masters hate the BBC so much; any attempt at telling the truth is seen as bias. Pretty much all our politicians are in hock to this model; science-denying lackey's of multinationals that operate outside of the law of any country because they are separate entities to any country.

The other route out of the present mess is a return the sort of state intervention Corbyn (and the SNP) are proposing. Here infrastructure is taken back into the hands of the people and things like energy, public transport, education and healthcare are run for the populace and not profit. Meanwhile, the worst excesses of capitalism are curbed by regulation; capitalism is incapable of self-regulation and needs to be reigned in and made to serve the people it employs. This doesn't mean an end to entrepreneurship or big business, earning profits or getting rich, it means people and businesses recognising they part of a society and economics will not compromise our ethics or morality for their own ends.

It's time for us to grow up and start taking some responsibility for our (in)actions. We can't address climate change and the coming mass movement of entire populations it will trigger, the conflicts across the globe and the need for a more equitable global society if we stick with our new outdated economic system. We have to change, and perhaps Corbyn is one of the small stones that starts the avalanche of change we need in the UK so we can join Scotland and forge a more progressive, caring and better educated society.