had to be the best at everything. At the age of 16 he was convicted for an armed robbery that sent him to prison he then focused on singing gospel music. In 1952 he formed a gospel cum R&B vocal group named the Flames and worked the South’s chitlin circuit. In 1956 the Flames caught Cincinnati’s King Records’ attention they signed the group to their subsidiary Federal label. In the mid 1960’s he achieved reverential
Realism: Is There No Alternative builds on this notion and says that there is a “widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable and political economic system, but also that it is impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative to it” (8). What makes capitalism such an overwhelming, undefeatable force? How can one explain the pervasive presence of capitalism in each and every sphere of our lives? And finally, how does capitalism pre-empt any act of resistance or critique thereby reproducing