Equitism is a refusal to accept that. Not a utopia. A blueprint for a system built on shared power, restored commons, and the proposition that no one should have to pay a toll simply to exist.
This book moves in three parts: a diagnosis of how capitalism concentrates wealth, extends colonialism, and is now consuming itself; a vision of what could replace it; and an application of that framework to the world's hardest cases.
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This book began as anger. It became something harder to carry: the work of understanding not just what is wrong, but what could be built instead.
Taufiq Ul Haque is a writer based in Ottawa, Canada. Equitism is his first book.
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What if the problem isn't the politicians? It's the system they serve.
Capitalism cannot be reformed. It must be replaced. This book makes that case simply, urgently, and with evidence.
"The world is not broken. It is working exactly as designed. Capitalism was never meant to distribute wealth. It was built to concentrate it. The poverty you see is not a failure of the system. It is the system succeeding."
Part One diagnoses the disease: how capitalism concentrates wealth by design, how colonialism never ended but merely changed its uniform, why reform always gets rolled back, and what the coming collapse looks like from inside it.
Part Two proposes the cure: Equitism, a system built on direct democracy, worker ownership, community land trusts, the restoration of the commons, and collective liberation that leaves no one behind.
Part Three tests the framework against the world's hardest cases: Palestine, Russia and Ukraine, Islamophobia, manufactured extremism, and the weapons economy that profits from every war.
This is not a book of grievances. It is a book of tools.
For readers of Naomi Klein, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Frantz Fanon. For anyone who suspects the ballot box was never the whole answer.
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This book began as anger.
It became something harder to carry: the work of understanding not just what is wrong, but what could be built instead.
Equitism is the result of that work. It is written for people who have felt the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be, and who are tired of being told to wait, to vote, to be patient, to trust the process.
The process is the problem.
Taufiq Ul Haque is a writer based in Ottawa, Canada. Equitism is his first book.
He writes at equitism.ca.
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