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One of the scariest manifestations of modern capitalism is the system’s ability to co-opt experiences, practices, even culture, and to then re-create and repackage them within a careerist, profit-driven (even in “non-profits”), and competitive logic.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
Many authors have elaborated on what future decision-making structures might look like. One example is Murray Bookchin's Democratic Confederalism, which posits a model of federated participatory democratic councils, currently implemented by Kurds in Rojava in Northern Syria. Another is Michael Albert's ParEcon, which outlines an entire alternative economic system, which Steve Shalom's ParPolity builds on in other areas of politics and legal systems. There are also many others (see Spannos 2008).
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
The behaviors that we adopt by open-ended learning have all the same limitations. If anything, behavioral adaptations are even more shortsighted than genetic evolution because the immediate costs and benefits of our behaviors are more perceptible to us than the long-term consequences.
This View of Life
David Sloan Wilson
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