Prosperity and Growth 

I started my work for the day reading an article by the Brookings Institute touting “sustainable growth” as the panacea for communities in the US suffering from economic insecurity.  It ticked me off enough to actually write to the Brookings… more

The issue is not “work versus leisure” but, rather, “the context of work” 

My own felt recollection of “the sixties” is that, before getting distracted by geo-political issues like the war in Vietnam, the original protests of the younger generation revolved around a “critique of everyday life” in this society. It was primarily… more

Re: Bolivia, Nationalization, Socialism, Communitarianism 

[This is adapted from a post on the NJGreenTalk discussion e-list. The debate reflected here goes on and on without yielding much in the way of ideological budging. The socialists stay socialists and the communitarians stay communitarians. In his book,… more

Update on Karma Co-op 

Karma Food Co-op in Toronto was profiled in an article in the Summer 2005 GHQ. It looked as though the co-op was being steered in the direction of becoming a funky downtown retail food store with minimal member involvement.

Utopians of the Right and the Left 

Communitarians have been called utopians, but a case can be made that the real utopians (in the sense of being hopelessly unrealistic) are the capitalist and socialist ideologues.

The Utopia of the Right is called Objectivism. It is… more

A Green take on the Social Security debate 

A GREEN TAKE ON THE SOCIAL SECURITY DEBATE

[with responses and comparisons]

5/31/05

The idea of Individual Retirement Accounts derives from the Rightist/Libertarian paradigm, which is based on hyper-individualism.

The idea of… more

From Red to Green 

From Red to Green

On the New Jersey Greens’ discussion list I made comments critical of socialism and someone responded:

> Unless you define the “socialism” which you
> find unacceptable, we can only… more

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