Wendell Berry on Industrialism

Industrialism, which is the name of our economy, and which is now virtually the only economy of the world, has been from it's beginnings in a state of riot. It is based squarely upon the principle of violence toward everything on which it depends, and it has not mattered whether the form of industrialism was communist or capitalist or whatever; the violence toward nature, human communities, traditional agricultures, local economies has been constant.