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Sep 6, 2006 3:14:17 PM cite

What's after capitalism?

by Wera Koseleck

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Aug 4, 2007 12:30:09 AM cite

Cooperatism is the natural replacement for capitalism as without cooperative development, global resource management and sustainability will not be possible to achieve.

by PeaceProfit

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Jul 31, 2007 3:32:25 AM cite

What's after capitalism? World Peace, Earth's Biosphere & End of Narcotics & Weapons, End of Exploitation with Accountability & responsibility of all Countries of Earth. http://gknot.net/dfusz/files/Stupid%20is%20Stupid%20Fact%20is%20Fact%20is%20Fact.jpg

by NeverCrusade

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Jul 3, 2007 10:05:57 PM cite

Will there be time for something after capitalism?

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Jun 18, 2007 11:10:26 PM cite

Corporatocracy? Instead of exercising civic responsibility by voting for politicians (which 50% of the US doesn't do anyway) we can vote for corporate officers who will manage the national (i.e. Corporate) budget. Just think of it! Greed for the sake of greed-no shame in a little profit, eh? Finally an honest transparent system of governance ...

by Wonder?

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Jun 16, 2007 2:08:26 PM cite

there will be magic and magic is knowledge - most of all knowledge about self. And this knowledge will show possibilities and probabilities unseen in the actual state of ignorance. So - the first step is self-knowledge and the "rest" (matter) will follow easily. And when there is knowledge, there will be love too, because love is only possible with knowledge about oneself and knowledge about All That Is!

by mbl

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Jun 8, 2007 9:40:48 AM cite

Why is the G8 Summit an public event?

by Kaeseguerilla

Jun 7, 2007 10:14:21 PM cite

That's for us to decide when we get there. We must be flexible and work with communities to determine that. Maybe Michael Albert's vision of Parecon or Participatory Economics. Maybe a modern version of Anarchism similar to the Spanish Civil War. I don't know if it's all that important to discuss them in too much detail. These things have to be decided as issues come up.

by que

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Jun 3, 2007 2:33:47 AM cite

Deep Conscious Capitalism and Spiritual Economics, when we realize that the power to create sustainable debt-free currency lies with We the people, not corporate banks or central bank controlled government. The blindspots of capitalism are debt-bsed currency/credit, confusing money as comodity/store of value, fractional reserve banking, exponential usury (charging compound interest)....all unnecessary. Yahoo Google Transforming capitalism, delusional economics

by Atma

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May 31, 2007 10:24:28 PM cite

A new Heaven and a new Earth...

by michaelm18x

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May 31, 2007 3:24:18 AM cite

Yes, that' s a really interesting question... I have no idea, but it remembers me at "happenings" in history... What's after absolutism? or What's after kommunism? Nobody had known what was going on in future. Expect the unexpected....But there's another interest in this question... you shall have a dream about life after this... and this has always brought changes in history... why not? Respect for your vision!! this is the first step of an imagine of annother way of life...thank you!!! ps: you are the first who has asked a question like this in 38 years.....I have to think more about it...we will see us again...

by castillo

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May 26, 2007 5:25:47 PM cite

It's called Corporatism. It's commandeered what used to be called a Free Market Economy. It forces poor people in poorer countries to accept goods from richer countries. It forces those poor people off the land that should belong to them into crowded cities with low wages. It sterilizes the culture. It sanitizes information for our protection. It accepts nothing less than every minute tendency of human beings in order to properly serve us. This is not capitalism. In fact it's very possible we've never truly had it. It's a kind of business totalitarianism. We need to call it by it's proper name in order to defeat it. It's called Corporatism and it won't stop until it's under your skin and inside your brain.

by mosesherzog

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  Freedom by unity1 1 vote

May 14, 2007 2:58:36 AM cite

to explore other ideas that embrace the whole of life animal, mineral. vegetable rather than see them as commodities to be consumed - that we cannot see anything else other than capialitism, is a testomoney to how far we have strayed from our inherent natures and our creative ablity to envision different ways of being

by unity1

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May 12, 2007 10:14:22 PM cite

Social Democracy, Self Governance, Self Sustainability, Lack of Continental Infrastructure...in a Perfect World.

by andrewe843

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May 9, 2007 7:03:21 PM cite

My main problem with capitalism is that we can do so much better. My idea We need ethical globalization managed by a new international body with a globally elected council, where the emphasis is running companies that benefit human society everywhere and not a few very powerful people like it is today. This eventually would lead to a greater economic equality and more just world. I don't think this is going to happen anytime soon. Whilst prejudice, organized religion and fear dominate peoples lives, we will always be divided from the next step in our growth as a species. Acting on the knowledge that we are all same and should all take care of each other.

by Carpet Fitter

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Apr 23, 2007 4:47:27 PM cite

It's really difficult to say what comes after capitalism since no society on earth has as yet reached the capitalist stage. Most nations that are today labeled "capitalist" are in fact fascist. Fascism is characterized by the partnership between big government and big business. Virtually every problem blamed on "capitalism" is in fact caused by the absence of capitalism. This includes especially the problem of poverty. Fascism is a system "by the rich, for the rich" and systematically transfers wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich. Capitalism, on the other hand, creates opportunities for the poor to become the middle class. The United States came closest to establishing captialism during its very early years, but the fascists gained solid control by 1913. Captialism is defined as the complete separation of economy and state. In a capitalsit society there would be no interference by the government in the economic affairs of its citizens. There would be no licensing of businesses or professions, no regulation of any business by any agency of government. There would be no chartering of corporations by the State. The consumers would have absolute control of all production through their individual purchase decisions. All production would be aimed solely at satisfying the needs/desires of the consumers. Unfortunately, this very desireable state of affairs has never been achieved by any society. Every society on earth has suffered from some level of government intervention in its economy. As for what comes after capitalism once it is achieve the answer is - nothing. Captialism is the highest possible economic order.

by EddieWillers

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Apr 18, 2007 10:23:53 PM cite

Marx coined the term Capitalist- Capitialism is the process of gain that comes from effort. This will never leave us. In it's purest sense, we are all capitalists is we invest ourselves wisely, and do not waste our lives.

by Jeffrey Pelletier

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Apr 17, 2007 9:04:28 PM cite

Someone said that the two fundamental differences between capitalism and communism is that communism is based on the myth of mans brotherhood. Capitalism on the other hand is based on the fact of mans greed. when we discuss the problem of capitalism we have to face each and everyones greed. Mans greed of money, if it is in a form of wealth, materialism, lazynes or power is humanitys biggest problem. I liked what Osiris wrote in his article A return to feudalism. What if the world was to be runed not by money but by intellect, ideas and mental evolution. What a world it would be. The only solution to this is to let the big mas deside how to run the world. To let everyone in front of a monitor who feels engaged in an issue take action and be part of a big democratic dessision. Off course we stand in front of a big problem where the whole world are not in possesion of computer technology. This problem must be solved in order to spread information and education. My idea is to let the world be controled by us, thorough a smal mouse click. And let there be no man, woman or group of individuals in power. A position in power comes with priveledges, and priveledges brethes greed.

by Woye

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Apr 15, 2007 4:08:04 AM cite

Is capitalism being replaced by a new feudalism? Clearly we do not live in an open, democratic meritocracy. Those with money have all the power over those without because of their ownership over the media and therefore the 'truth'. In many countries, those without are encouraged or forced to go to war to protect the capital interests of the rich elite. Is this not a symptom of feudalism? The virtues of those who lead us have nothing to do with their path to power. Our leaders are not so because they are more intelligent or because they worked harder for the greater good. Our leaders are so because they have more money or they have the backing of those with more money. Their control is no longer physical, it is now economic and because we all have to work to pay our rent, to eat, to exist; we have become the peasants to the fat, greedy economic aristocracy. Our political systems should not be based on material wealth but on intellectual wealth. Our currency not resources and cash but on questions, answers, ideas and hope. I don't claim to know how such a system would work, I am not a political scientist. What I do know is that I would rather die on my feet, free to imagine a universe of endless possibilities than live on my knees, at the mercy of those who payed to be kings and queens.

by Osiris

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