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There's
two globalizations... The elite globalization represents minority forces. The
elite globalization is about make money... The people's globalization, the democratic
mass globalization is about life values.
-- Kevin
Danaher *
The
global economy works for about twenty percent of the world, for about eighty percent
it doesn't.
-- Kevin
Danaher *
We
have a global economy that is not structured around democratizing and including
people in the decision-making. It's operated in secret.
-- Kevin
Danaher |
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We want a system
in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce
what he gets.
-- Eugene
V. Debs The
economic owning class is always the political ruling class.
-- Eugene
V. Debs |
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The
ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free
human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
-- John
Dewey |
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"This crippling of individuals
I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers
from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student,
who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through
the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system
which would be oriented toward social goals."
-- Albert
Einstein |
Viewed as a means to
the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their
effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization
that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also
promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political
power and in this way enables the one to offset the other
-- Milton Friedman
The
accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic
interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or
in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions -- the private business
enterprise, the Communist Party -- that reflect the dominant economic power. Not
to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable
from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather
inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient
for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called
the "gross criminal product."
-- Eduardo
Galeano |
So
long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build
up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the
House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
-- Henry George
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"I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with
the individual consumer."
~ Denis
Hayes |
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I think our main foreign
policy is economic policy but to think that economic policy is not environmental
policy is to sort of, miss the point. You know you can't have economic development
without impact on the biosphere.
~ Randy Hayes *
Economic policy turns out to be the most important environmental policy.
~
Randy Hayes |
If
we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare
of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model has clearly been a major failure.
It has served a minority, and the majority have not only failed to share in the
income gains yielded by the model, they have suffered from reduced benefits, greater
job instability and stress, and a diminution of expectations and sense of hope
for the future.
-- Edward S. Herman
American
consumerism is about buying things we don't need, with money we don't have, to
impress friends we don't have time for.
-- Leo Horrigan
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"I sincerely believe...that
banking establishments are more dangerous that standing armies."
-- Thomas
Jefferson |
Workers
Day
- May 1
Fair
Trade Day - 2nd Sat in May
End
Poverty Day - October 17
Buy
Nothing Day - 4th Fri in November
