To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.

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

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

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.

Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.

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.

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