The Light of True Democracy

White Demographic Decline Derangement Syndrome has its roots in three phenomena: (1) the plutocrat class's neoliberal restructuring of ...

there is an unseeable vital force in the universe. the unseeable can be experienced, but it cannot be known;   the unseeable cannot be ...

When a society marginalizes and demonizes a segment of its population, and basically leaves it to rot at the bottom of the heap, is it any ...

It's interesting that one of the main torture defenders' "arguments" is that it was done after the 2001 terrorist attacks...

Imagine a white guy in the American South, say Alabama, in 1850. He's not rich, but he saves up enough money to buy a slave. Now if th...

TWO PROPOSED CORE VALUES FOR A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE LOOKING TO MOVE BEYOND MODERN CAPITALISM AS A WAY OF LIFE "MORALITY" Mor...

Cultural anthropology in a nutshell: Human life occurs in group realities, lived systems of concepts and practices, meanings and activitie...

Corporate personhood is part of the problem, part of the way plutocracy unjustly dominates society in the interest of the few. Another big ...

Here's something to think about: pretty much every human ever in the history of humans has had personal belongings, things that belong...

... the five-step path: Step 1) HUMAN DECENCY At birth, every human being is equally deserving of respect and equally deserving of a so...

Haymarket Memorial, DesPlaines Street, Chicago May 4, 2015, marks the 129th anniversary of the Chicago's Haymarket "riot,&qu...

Plutocracy is government by and for the wealthy. Plutocracy is the hierarchical social system that capitalism creates. Capitalism is ...

The problem is the power society grants to money, and the socioeconomic structures that facilitate the concentration of that power in a smal...

is to create true democracy in an era of economic collapse and ecological catastrophe. Communities practicing true democracy will develop ...

an edited version of these thoughts appeared in Transition Voice The Transition Town movement starts from the realization that our modern...

these thoughts originally appeared in Transition Voice - Few would disagree that the contemporary capitalist societies that define the &...

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a version of these thoughts was published in Transition Voice . July 4th commemorates Independence Day in the United States, the day in ...

Until the not too distant future when more of us will be wielding our power and freedom to live in societies without marketers and profit...

The path leading to the best societies humans can create – the democracy demanded by free people – will not involve coming together as a ...

Modernity and capitalism are fundamentally the same thing. Continuous growth/expansion/colonization are at the root of modernity; capitalis...