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Tag: capitalism

Exploring economic freedom as if freedom and people actually mattered

Posted on July 20, 2013August 26, 2013 by Gus

Two quotations, juxtaposed, summarize the errors into which modern American defenses of ‘free markets’ and capitalism have entered. In the process these errors led to abandoning any real meaning for liberty or human well-being.  Right wing libertarians in particular sincerely … Read more

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Powerful TED talk on health, food, and what corporate agriculture is doing to us

Posted on July 19, 2013July 19, 2013 by Gus

I am linking to a powerful TED talk about the state of American food and health.  It is particularly revealing at showing the absolute contradiction between putting profit ahead of everything and the complex moral relationships that make up human … Read more

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Capitalism vs. the Market II: re-integrating markets into civil society

Posted on February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 by Gus

The solution to ending capitalism’s dominance over human beings and human values has two dimensions. First, capitalist enterprises must be subordinated to the larger ethical standards of civil society.  The “capitalist ecosystem” I described in Part I must be reabsorbed … Read more

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Mondragon- One Step Beyond Capitalism

Posted on September 27, 2012July 1, 2021 by Gus

From September 8 to 14 I took the opportunity to join a study-tour of the worker owned Mondragon Cooperatives  in the Basque Country of northern Spain. It had been organized by the Praxis Peace Institute to expose Americans to the … Read more

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