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| University of Melbourne anthropologist, Hans Baer. |
The nearly 30-page
document – “Toward democratic eco-socialism as the next world system” – is the
articulation of how Hans sees us finding our way through the all-encompassing malaise
of climate change.
The University of Melbourne anthropologist can see no way
out of humanity’s present predicament until
it is able to extricate itself from under the smothering economic web of
capitalism.
Hans, who has a reputation of asking the hard question at
many of the university’s public forums, was delighted that “The Next System Project” had accepted his essay and published it on its website.
In his essay, Hans writes: “The concept of democratic
eco-socialism constitutes a merger of the earlier existing concepts of
democratic socialism and eco-socialism. It is imperative that progressives
reinvent the notion of socialism by recognizing that we live on a planet with
limited resources that must be more or less equitably distributed to provide
everyone with enough, but not too much.”
It’s a thoughtful piece worthy of a read and although it may be idealistic, it appears to be founded on established
ideals such as “decency, fairness,
compassion, and sharing”, many things that the captains of the corporate world
claim, but as experience shows, are blatantly “missing in action”.
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Robert McLean.
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