Changing the course

The future of the planet and nations is severely compromised; the global course is social, economical, and environmentally unsustainable. Singularities, nuances, inconsistencies, variations can and should be discussed; but the systemic course needs to be transformed. A new course is imperative, one that starts with dismantling the unrestrained concentration of wealth, firmly levying the opulence and eliminating appropriation value mechanisms to avoid the indefinite reproduction of inequality. In that context, we need to promote a wide and effective productive inclusion of our neglected majorities.

This new construction requires a multidimensional action, including at the political level the establishment of transforming coalitions and, at the level of values, the predominance of justice, equity, responsibility, social cohesion, solidarity and environmental care, instead of a never-ending greed, selfishness, the negation of others. This change of course, hopefully democratically legitimated, should be defined by the peoples and not by the markets: the economic system must be an instrument to achieve general wellbeing and not the steering-wheel of the collective destiny.

Greetings

The Editors