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

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Money is a mechanism for control.

Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.