by MICHAEL ALBERT
Imagine we were to assemble in one massive stadium everyone who favors changing societies to attain political, economic, and social justice for all. Everyone who wants to end war and poverty and begin civilization.
What views would this endlessly diverse assembly overwhelmingly share?
* Capitalism must be replaced. We need to produce and consume so that everyone has a fair influence in determining outcomes and everyone gets a fair share of the social product. The needs and desires of all, not the dictates of competition or advance of a few, should guide outcomes. All social and environmental costs and benefits should be accounted. We need economics without exploitation and alienation, economics without class rule.
* Patriarchy must be replaced. We need to nurture and socialize the next generation, handle daily life arrangements, engage in sexual life, and generally interrelate across genders, ages, and preferences such that no groups are subordinated to any others. We need kinship without denial and denigration, kinship without sexist hierarchy.
* Racism and community hierarchies of all kinds must be replaced. We need communities to celebrate life, language, belief systems, and habits – whether national, religious, ethnic, or racial – such that those involved always respect ways different than their own. We need free entry and exit from cultural communities that guarantee all cultural communities ample room to develop and operate. We need culture without subordination and superiority, culture without cultural hierarchy.
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