"The Next System Project is an ambitious multi-year initiative aimed at thinking boldly about what is required to deal with the systemic challenges the United States faces now and in coming decades. Responding to real hunger for a new way forward, and building on innovative thinking and practical experience with new economic institutions and approaches being developed in communities across the country and around the world, the goal is to put the central idea of system change, and that there can be a 'next system,' on the map.
"Working with a broad group of researchers,
theorists and activists, we seek to launch a national debate on the
nature of “the next system” using the best research, understanding and
strategic thinking, on the one hand, and on-the-ground organizing and
development experience, on the other, to refine and publicize
comprehensive alternative political-economic system models that are
different in fundamental ways from the failed systems of the past and
capable of delivering superior social, economic and ecological outcomes.
"By defining issues systemically, we believe we can
begin to move the political conversation beyond current limits with the
aim of catalyzing a substantive debate about the need for a radically
different system and how we might go about its construction. Despite the
scale of the difficulties, a cautious and paradoxical optimism is
warranted. There are real alternatives. Arising from the unforgiving
logic of dead ends, the steadily building array of promising new
proposals and alternative institutions and experiments, together with an
explosion of ideas and new activism, offer a powerful basis for hope."
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