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Manifesto For Economic Democracy and Ecological Sanity | Professor Richard D. Wolff

Manifesto For Economic Democracy and Ecological Sanity | Professor Richard D. Wolff | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change. Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. We do not have the lives we want and our children’s future is threatened because of social conditions that can and should be changed. One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. One key solution is thus the institution of genuine economic democracy as the basis for a genuine political democracy as well. That means transforming the workplace in our society as we propose in what follows.

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Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way

Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Richard Wolff: Why are we told a broken system that creates vast inequality is the only choice? Spain's amazing co-op is living proof otherwise
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Review: Occupy the Economy – Challenging Capitalism

Review: Occupy the Economy – Challenging Capitalism | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

SIX STAR (my top 10% across 2000+ non-fiction book). This is an extraordinary book full of straight talk and common sense that sets the stage for a socio-economic revolution, first in the USA and then elsewhere. It does not address the many isolated incidents of collaborative capitalism and the commons that are in motion around the world — for that look up Michel Bauwens and the work of others on the economic commons — and it neglects the coincident need for a political revolution which is what my latest book on Open Power is about — but on balance this is easily a six-star offering.

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