So long as we live under this corporate capitalist system we have little choice but to go along in this destruction, to keep pouring on the gas instead of slamming on the brakes, and that the only alternative — impossible as this may seem right now — is to overthrow this global economic system and all of the governments of the 1 % that prop it up and replace them with
a global economic democracy, a radical bottom - up political democracy, an eco-socialist civilization.
Not exact matches
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Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under capitalism,
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global crisis, inequality, Occupy Movement, Role of government, taxation.
Political
democracy can be manipulated in the unipolar world to make whatever party that comes to power dependent on the
global economic powers.
As with the last great crisis of social
democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major
economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in
global financial markets unleashed in 2008.
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Democracy may yet come to Iraq and the region, but so too may civil war or a regional conflagration, which in turn could lead to spiraling oil prices and a
global economic shock.
Titled Ityala aliboli / Debt don't rot, the show is a conceptual confrontation of the
economic crisis in South Africa, which the artists assert — while exploring the legacies of colonialism and apartheid as well as the disappointment of
democracy — exponentially precedes the
global recession of the past few years.
Pissant progressives pontificating on
economic degrowth, new
economic systems eschewing
economic growth,
global government, using disasters to engineer transformative moments for social revolution, suspension of
democracy and the rule of law to deal with the catastrophic risk of climate change or whatever the whine de jour is.
Sensible
global policy that relies on
democracy, the rule of law and
economic development.
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