Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Capitalism Datum: zondag 26 januari 2014 14:03 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 487 Amsterdam, January 26th, 2014 LIBERTARIAN ECO-SOCIALISM - The Political Philosophy and Organizational Form of an Integral Society - JOE CORBETT Any discussion of socialism these days must keep in mind the developmental distinctions of socialism... Keeping these socio-developmental distinctions in mind, if what we want at this point in the crisis or failure of modern and postmodern capitalist values and institutions is an integral post-postmodern society at yellow, it's probably not going to be a kinder-gentler 'conscious capitalism' (a functional modern-postmodern system), but rather a libertarian eco-socialism; that is to say, a low fossil-fuel permaculture based society organized around self-managed decentralized local communities of direct democracy federated into regional, national, and global governing bodies. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett18.html INTEGRAL ANTI-CAPITALISM - EDWARD BERGE Joe Corbett's recent article “Libertarian Eco-socialism” inspired me to offer some edited excerpts of my writing (as theurj) in the Integral Postmetaphysical Spirituality forum thread called "Integral Anti-Capitalism." It is a conversation with Layman Pascal so see the thread for his contributions. In this post I linked to the Integral Life conscious capitalism post which said: “If you shop, have a job, or own any investments, you're a capitalist. But are you a conscious capitalist?” For one this presumes that if you engage in markets and business or exchange money you are a capitalist, which is an erroneous and revealing assumption. Cannot one do all those things without engaging in capitalism? One most certainly can. Just because money or capital in involved doesn’t make it capitalism. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/berge6.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html