Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Ten Reasons Why We Need a New, Anticapitalist Alternative

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Ten Reasons Why We Need a New, Anticapitalist Alternative

Click here to access article by Simon Hardy from New Left Project (UK).

Although the author is addressing his remarks to activists in the UK, most of what he writes about is very relevant to activists confronting capitalism most everywhere in the world.

Unless we find a way to realign the left around a radical perspective that breaks the bottle necks and captures the new mood of resistance, then we will pass through this crisis only to bear witness to new defeats. We will have failed the challenge that is being posed to us all - are we still relevant?