Sublime

Since political and economic systems accrue and distribute power and wealth among people, those people are essential inputs to those systems.

social engagement to sustain democracy, people’s shared exercise of power. All of these essentials of social life are jeopardized by contemporary cultural trends which damage communication and prioritize self-interest.

Working people control the government. 2. The government controls the economy.

We should be the subjects of what we do and what we value, rather than being subjected to what we supposedly need to do and what we supposedly value. How such a revolution of our lives is possible—and what it requires of us—is specified by the principles of democratic socialism that I will articulate. The challenge of democratic socialism is to dev

But in modern times the Occident has developed, in addition to this, a very different form of capitalism which has appeared nowhere else: the rational capitalistic organization of (formally) free labour.

le pouvoir sans entraves que le capital a pris sur le travail, sur la société et sur la vie de tous tient précisément à ceci : que le « travail » – celui qu’on vous fait faire, non celui que vous faites – conserve dans la vie et dans la conscience de chacun sa centralité alors même qu’il est massivement éliminé, économisé et aboli à tous les niveau