Auerbach's incredible pages are a part of «Systemic,» a
group show at Carolina Nitsch Project Room featuring artists, who according to the gallery, «take a
systems - based approach to their processes or,
in some cases,
critique the structures and organizations which spread into our lives and communities.»
Building on this
critique, Speth goes on to conclude
in his book that: (1) «today's
system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not
in a minor way but
in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «
in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and
groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating
system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»