Posted on 09/28/2015 11:09:04 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
[When the Holy Father finds himself on the same page with leading academics, he should worryed.] Al Jazeera posted an article, Bernie Sanders, the pope and the moral imperative of systemic change, by Gar Alperovitz, the co-chair with James Gustave Speth of The Next System Project. Speth, former administrator of the United Nations Development Program, put his name on its 1994 Human Development Report, which openly promoted global taxes for world government.
The Next System is another name for the replacement of global capitalism by global socialism.
Those endorsing this project, in addition to Alperovitz and Speth, include:
Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University
Gerald Hudson, Service Employees International Union
Annie Leonard, Greenpeace USA
Robert B. Reich, University of California at Berkeley
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Barbara Ehrenreich, Author
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University
Gerald Torres, Cornell University Law School
Larry Cohen, Communications Workers of America
Julie Matthaei, Cornerstone Cohousing
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers
Rep. John James Conyers, Jr., 13th District, Michigan
Bill McKibben, 350.org
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California
J. Phillip Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning Filmmaker
Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK
Timothy E. Wirth, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund
Sarita Gupta, Jobs With Justice
Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Van Jones, The Dream Corps & Rebuild The Dream
Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California State University
Daniel Ellsberg, Author
Herman E. Daly, University of Maryland
Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate, Author, Former Presidential Candidate
Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Anna Galland, MoveOn.org Civic Action
Danny Glover, Actor, Social Activist
Tom Morello, Musician, Activist
Jill Stein, 2012 Green Party Presidential Nominee
Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research
We have fundamental problems because of fundamental flaws in our economic and political system, the New Project proclaims. The crisis now unfolding in so many ways across our country amounts to a systemic crisis. Todays political economic system is not programmed to secure the wellbeing of people, place and planet. Instead, its priorities are corporate profits, the growth of GDP, and the projection of national power.
The group goes on, Large-scale system change is needed but has until recently been constrained by a continuing lack of imagination concerning social, economic and political alternatives. There are alternatives that can lead to the systemic change we need.
Yes there are. They are called socialism and communism. But they would rather call it sustainable development, in order to confuse people about how the American way of life is being targeted for extinction.
Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org . This column is excerpted from an article which appears on the AIM site.
Next System sounds like the Fourth Reich or Cultural Revolution Part II
A real Who’s Who of Commies.
Ping.
[When the Holy Father finds himself on the same page with leading academics, Catholics should worry.
As a Thomistic Catholic, it is really easy to see this pope as an anti-pope, esp. with the unorthodox removal of Pope Benedict XVI.
When you throw out Truth/God (as this “pope” advocates), for the destruction of Free Will (choice) and Virtue (freedom/Justice/Wisdom/Temperance)-—you promote TOTAL DEHUMANIZATION of the people. Socialism, as Solzhenitsyn stated-—even a LITTLE BIT of Socialism rots the Soul. Children raised in socialism has dependence forced into them-—like the Inca’s system of no private property. Worldview of Newton is not possible without Classical Education and the ability to “think critically” is not possible without Knowledge (truth/wisdom of the ages and the Socratic Method and Aristotelian Logic (abstract thinking tools).
“Choice” is what makes us human beings and Reason elevates man above animal. This pope removes REASON for EMOTIONS which leads only to mass conformity which allows elite masters, and you have slavery/socialism—an evil, vile system which herds and controls and culls human beings like they are simply non-thinking cattle.
Numerous popes have written encyclicals on how evil Marxism, Socialism and islam are-—how dehumanizing their system of “beliefs” are which remove Freedom and Choice in ALL aspects of life.
We need to get back to Classically educating our chldren-—remove all the John Dewey system of mass indoctrination (Marxist Lens “history” revisionism—so truth and thinking can’t occur in the majority in the US again, like at the Founding).
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