Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity -- which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose well-being depends on them.
To create a
world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values
and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor
life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as
servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new
level of species consciousness and function.
- David Korten
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