“’What is the difference between capitalism and communism?’” began an old Soviet-era joke, sometimes attributed to John Kenneth Galbraith. ‘The former is the exploitation of man by man while the latter is the opposite.’ I was coming up with a new explanation: Communism bans books for their ideas while capitalism bans them for their (perceived) inability to make money. A situation that turns unpublished writers in the first system into dissidents and heroes and those in the second into poor schmucks.”

Thomas Swick, from his article on the long path to publication. For Swick’s complete article, at the website, Literary Hub, click on this link.