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It is built on the rational faith that women and men liberated from the tyranny of capitalism will use appropriate technology and organize their social relations and self-governance in a way that restores and preserves the integrity of nature.
We are indoctrinated by capitalist ideology from the cradle to the grave to consume more and more, to try to fill our inner emptiness with commodities. That mentality, and the dominion of commodities over life, inevitably lead to ecological crisis.
freely associated human beings, and women in particular, will have no trouble at all in regulating their numbers.
the United States is an oligarchy, not a democracy.
They differ about how decisions would be made, but they are unanimous that the decision-making process must be democratic.
The best evidence that capitalists are not necessary is the success of hundreds of successful employee- and community-owned enterprises and co-ops that outperform their capitalist competitors.
the evidence is that the more ownership and control the employees have, the more productive and successful is the enterprise.
combining worker ownership and employee participation commonly produces greater productivity gains, in some cases over 50 percent.
This is a false conclusion, based on the assumption that "capitalism" is the only expression of a "free market".
Capitalist corporations and government agencies are but two flavors of the same beast.
Here is the flaw in the author's proposed socialism: central planners will always choose to increase their own power at the expense of the people.
All of these important issues can be resolved democratically. We don’t need a group of oligarchs or capitalism itself to do that.
in democratically organized socialist enterprises, the direct workers would function collectively as the board of directors,
the workers would make the crucial economic decisions and decide how to distribute the money their work brought in.
When state enterprises position state officials as the appropriators and distributors of the surpluses produced by other people, capitalist exploitation has not been eliminated. Rather, state capitalist exploitation has replaced private capitalist exploitation.
In capitalist enterprises, workers are excluded from virtually all basic enterprise decisions.
