I have always maintained that liberation is total and inclusive or it is meaningless. The fact that colour has different levels of significance for different people is not the same as the accusation that ‘group A’ has a wilfully myopic attitude to ‘group B’.

I have black friends. I know that their colour is significant to them in a way it is not to me. Neither I nor they regard our own view of this level of significance as being absolute. We regard each other’s view as contributing to a greater overview. Each other’s view informs us rather than creating a barrier or a problem. Knowing what to do with the information isn’t easy, but we sure as hell don’t do nothing with it.

I see the writer of the above article – a person with genuine grievances and an experience of something I can only guess at – veering too close, with his list of six loaded questions and his slogans, to setting up an aunt sally just to knock over by himself. To me that seems futile.

There is a level, an important level, where the identifiable problems of an identifiable group are vitally important to consider. I am a woman and recognise the particular struggles of women. But I can’t divorce those problems and that struggle from the overall struggle. One group can’t be liberated on its own; none of us is free as long as someone else is at a disadvantage.

What we are trying to deal with is a complex kyriarchy. It’s lumpy, it’s uneven, it’s often contradictory. Pointing at the lumps and hurling accusations isn’t going to make things any better.

M

i really like your idea that, “I believe like in any death, we particularly in the West are experiencing a collectively unconscious bereavement of capitalism.”

our emotional and psychological selves tell us a lot about what is going on in the world. it’s very interesting to ponder the wisdom that exists in our bodies and what this reveals not only about ourselves, but about the larger society and world.

alex

However, no system is perfect and once abuse sets in, natures course is showing the decay of capitalism. One hopes like yourself that its death and the birth and maturity of a new system will incorporate the ideals you have mentioned and other healthy values.

I believe like in any death, we particularly in the West are experiencing a collectively unconscious bereavement of capitalism. Once we are over the shock, anger and denial, only then can we being the process of healing. Work like yours and many others is raising the consciousness in our world and I appreciate your courage to express your truth.

this is a nice website, but i am little bit afraid ideas posted here are more dreaming than reality. Needs of all people in this world will never be fulfilled. We do need growth and it may not be correlating with damaging earth, but rather technology growth over economic one. I agree, that capitalism is getting sick, but solution is not to entirely replace it, but to replace sick parts and make it more healthy. If our effort was more focused on technology growth, than economic growth, we could invest more resources into technology. Space is big and allows almost infinite resources and expansion, but our greed is slowing us to achieve our global goals of evolution.

When Marx or you and I refer to “The Linear March of History” it should be remembered that he/we come from a Judo-Christian background which sees us all as groups and/or individuals sliding down toward the gates of hell before being redeemed.

Transfer this ideology to his materialism and what do we see???.

None of the above ever gave due credit to the Islamic scolars of Alexadria, Syria and Persia ithout whom thwere could not have been a Renaisance or Enlightenment.

Ibn Kaldehn in the 14th century developed a theory of labour value and the reason for growth of cities; this was more than 300 years prior to “Wealth of Nations”. One might suspect plagarism but more likely it was just neglect due to NARROW MINDED WHITE EUROPEANS ignoring contributions from outside of Europe.