tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621529782651296685.post2197599842189385224..comments2020-08-01T22:28:50.016-06:00Comments on Proactive Progressive Populism: What is integral critical theory?Edward Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13864657929019204993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621529782651296685.post-87654992564095394612011-12-20T21:30:45.218-07:002011-12-20T21:30:45.218-07:00Another of Corbett's IW articles is "Soci...Another of Corbett's IW articles is "Social transformation."* A few select quotes that resonate with Rifkin:<br /><br />"In this article I will give a critique of the social institutions of capitalism and the injustice it generates by using all four quadrants, and then I will suggest possible transition strategies as well as future social-system scenarios that can be facilitated by and generated out of an AQAL analysis.<br /><br />"An eco-tech energy macro-foundation (UR) would create more equity between humans and nature, and possibly save our collective lives in the process, because it would be more difficult to exploit human labor itself using renewable energy sources, as they must be decentralized for them to work effectively. Empowering labor with decentralized energy technologies can be a first step towards restoring balance with nature, as well as reducing alienated and exploited labor based on a highly centralized and unequal organization of tyrannical capitalist institutions that are made possible by a fossil fuel energy foundation.<br /><br />"The institutions of a political-economy based on a decentralized eco-tech energy foundation would likewise need to be radically transformed from a centralized oligarchy of political, industrial, financial, and military elites to an eco-socialist set of social relations (LR), based on decentralized local communities linked to larger provincial, state, regional, national, and global institutions that keep the collective social and natural environmental interests, rather than only (or even primarily) private power/profit interests, at the center of their efforts. This in turn would provide the context for local and global cultures to be based not on a corporate-consumer model of greed and envy, but on a compassionate socialist-democratic model of humanistic solidarity and soulful community (LL) in harmony and balance with both nature and other human beings.<br /><br />"As for the structure of the self, serving as a micro-foundation at the other end of the human reality matrix (UL)....with fossil fuel addiction broken and the hyper-images and hegemonic representations of corporate-media tamed by decentralized eco-socialist institutions, values, and beliefs....a contemplative creativity (genius) of voluntary self-sacrifice (altruism) could emerge from a self that is no longer alienated, exploited, oppressed, and media-manipulated, and that is culturally and socially supported by enlightened (democratic-socialist and spiritual, green and yellow) values, beliefs, and institutions.<br /><br />"So how can we actually get from here to there?... We must begin with the LR quadrant, with the social relations and institutions of society and the inequities (injustices) and pathologies they generate."<br /><br />* http://www.integralworld.net/corbett1.htmlEdward Bergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864657929019204993noreply@blogger.com