The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.