Book Launch: August 12, 2026
Feeling Good Doing Evil
CORPORATE COMMUNISM
This book was written for this moment we are in — when truth is under siege and power is hiding behind a smiling corporate face.
The result is a system that weaponizes our kindness against us: policies that sound virtuous but deliver censorship, energy poverty, food insecurity, and people struggling to pay the bills as wealth flows relentlessly upward.
To find our way back to an economy that works for more than just the 1%, we have a choice to make. It is not a choice between Capitalism and Communism. The choice is to re-instate REGULATED capitalism.
- The first step is to see Corporate Communism for what it is.
- The next step is to stop fuelling it with our goodwill and compliance.
Written in a conversational tone to make it an easy read (with extensive footnotes), the book describes what corporate communism is and shows how it took hold in the West (beginning in the 1980s).
This is not a book like other cultural critiques. It draws on the author's own experience of Soviet communism and shows the eerie similarities between then and now. Just like ordinary people unravelled the Soviet Empire, we can conquer corporate communism. In this book, Jaks shows us how find our way to a more economically fair and just society.
NOT YOUR DONKEY
Maret Jaks runs a Substack and Podcast called NOT YOUR DONKEY where she focuses not just on politics and culture but on a wide range of topics we all face in this thing called Life. Free to subscribe.
The story of
Maret Jaks
Fierce grandmother | Tech consultant & writer | Business Owner | Free speech advocate.
Maret Jaks is a fearless independent author, speaker, and cultural critic whose work stands out for its intellectual honesty and refusal to self-censor in an era of enforced conformity. With an Estonian refugee mother who escaped Soviet communism, Maret grew up with an instinctive understanding of how quickly freedom can be lost to ideology and centralized power. This heritage deeply informs her writing, giving her a unique perspective on contemporary threats to Western liberty, cohesion, and truth.
But she’s not all about politics. She built her tech business while jointly raising her family with her ex-husband (also in tech). A firm believer in working directly with people who need help, she once fostered four teenage girls, served as an advocate for women in prison, and volunteered with elderly residents in care homes. These chapters of her life, along with her deep love of nature and the environment (without being a climate catastrophist) reinforce her conviction that each of us should live like it matters, because it does.
Oh, and she’s a dog-lover, too.
Maret's Books
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