This page is being developed to address issues raised by contemporary corporate efforts at globalization, and also alternative approaches.
"Markets are very good for taking care of private needs. And engaging in free exchange. But they do not take care of our collective needs. And we do have collective needs. And that's what's ignored. I mean, we need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process. And the market fundamentals have managed to reduce providing those public goods." - George Soros
Here are some hyperlinks both to resources relating to contemporary corporate globalization efforts, and also to organizations working in diverse ways toward the goal of a better global society:
Here are some local and regional links:
Here is a perhaps relevant historical perspective on social change in our society:
"War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable, in the field of policy and administration as well as mass murder. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy, whose chief characteristic is that it tends to do precisely the opposite, when left to itself." - Eric Hobsbawm, in The Observer Review, 26 May 1968.
"We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless."
- Senator J. William Fulbright
We are now observing the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World.
This page is under development. This page was last updated 22 January 2005.
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