File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/avant-garde.9708, message 15


Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 21:20:14 -0400
From: aPS <artspec-AT-lonekeep.com>
Subject: Re: rejecting the crippling consequences of collectivism, but also the cramped domination of concentrated wealth


{ brad brace } wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, aPS wrote:
>
> > (What Can Be Done?)
>
> Restore national controls over global capital.
>  

?

> Tax wealth more, labor less.
>
> Stimulate global growth by boosting consumer demand from the bottom
> up.
>  

?

> Compel trading nations to accept more balanced trade relations and
> absorb
> more surplus production.
>
> Forgive the debtors, especially the hopeless cases among the very poor
>
> nations.
>  

Who pays for it?

> Reorganize monetary policy to confront the realities of a globalized
> money supply, both to achieve greater stability and open the way to
> greater growth.
>  

Would that be against finite resources or optimistic predictions?

> Defend labor rights in all markets, prohibit the ancient abuses
> renewed
> in the 'dark Satanic mills.'
>
> Withdraw from the old labor-capital battleground by universalizing
> access
> to capital ownership.
>
> Reformulate the idea of economic growth to escape the wasteful nature
> of
> consumption.
>  

With recycling and innovation as a part of the production formula,
optimistic predictions could become, if drawn realistically, a part of
the globalized monetary policy.

> And, in the meantime, defend work and wages an social protections
> against
> assaults by the marketplace. (william greider)
>  

But it all sounds pretty ambitious. Tell us of (y)our progress. 
 



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