We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Eurocrisis is a Global Crisis

A 15:09m interview with Leo Panitch, a "distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto." He offers an explanation of...
...the irrationality of capitalism and the enormous difficulty that states have in containing the crises that financial capitalism throws up.