The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.

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

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.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.