Ending Capitalism Is Not Enough by Eric Schechter

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by Eric Schechter aka LeftyMathProf
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Eric’s Rants and Videos blog
January 22, 2019

leftymathprof on Jan 21, 2019

The world is falling apart, and reforms won’t suffice. “End capitalism” is a good start, but ultimately too simple an explanation. We need to end authoritarianism, hierarchy, property, competition, productivism, and separateness, by seeing them more clearly and talking about them. Replace hierarchy with horizontalism, property with sharing, competition with cooperation, productivism with ecological awareness, separateness with empathy.

The Root Problem by Eric Schechter

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by Eric Schechter aka LeftyMathProf
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Eric’s Rants and Videos blog
October 26, 2018

leftymathprof on Oct 23, 2018

For 200,000 years we were hunter-gatherers. We shared everything of importance, and cooperated without hierarchy, and we’re still capable of that. But 12,000 years ago, when we started farming, we also began separateness, hierarchy, and property, which I’ll discuss. Those have caused all our problems — alienation, inequality, externalities, war, poverty, plutocracy, racism, sexism, bullying, ecocide. The first step in fixing all this is to get more people talking about it.

The Rich Are Only Rich If We Let Them Be by Dariel Garner

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by Dariel Garner
Writer, Dandelion Salad
July 9, 2018

100 kids with 100 toys in a big room. Shrieks of joy. Kids running everywhere. Playing, laughing, squeals of delight. Everyone has a toy, everyone is having fun.

The Injustice and Crime of Extreme Inequality by Graham Peebles

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by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
May 13, 2018

Poverty is the greatest cause of death and illness globally; it strangles the lives of billions of people, denying the expression of innate potential, condemning men, women and children to live stunted uncreative lives of interminable suffering and drudgery.