Sunday, January 29, 2012

From Common Goods to the Common Good of Humanity

Click here to access article by Francois Houtart from P2P Foundation (a posted excerpt from a document). 
The time has come to take action and to do so by developing new ideas. However repairing the dysfunctions of the capitalist market economy, preaching green capitalism, regulating financial markets, struggling against poverty by doling out aid, drawing up security systems that are increasingly militaristic and criminalize resistance are all simply ways of adapting the existing system. What we now need is a radical change, another paradigm: in other words a fundamentally new orientation of the life of human beings on the planet.