“The institutional requirements of community pose fundamental issues that neither corporate capitalism nor state socialism ever took seriously. The critical point of departure is the question: Can you have Democracy with a big D in any system if you don't have democracy with a small d in the actual experience and everyday community life of ordinary everyday citizens?” CommunityDemocracyCapitalism2012State Socialism Book:What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution Source: What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
“I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of "reconstructive" communities as a cultural, as well as a political, fact: how geographic communities are structured to move in the direction of the next vision, along with the question of how a larger system - given the power and cultural relationships - can move toward managing the connections between the developing communities. There are many, many hard questions here - including, obviously, ones related to ecological sustainability and climate change.” WellsHardFactsMovingPoliticalNextGivenCommunityVisionEconomyConnectionsClimateClimate ChangeIncludingDevelopingRelatedTransitionSustainabilityEcologicalPolitical EconomyHard QuestionsPower Relationships Author:Gar Alperovitz
“As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and services or by promoting worker ownership - not only have immediate practical benefits but provide the necessary preconditions for the growth and development of a renewed culture of sustainable democracy that can serve as the basis for still further transformations at larger scales.” StillsMovingCultureGrowthCommunityDemocracyEconomicDevelopmentBenefitsFlowBasesTransformationWorkersScalesPracticalsInstanceGoodsOwnershipInterventionPromotingCommonwealthGoods And Services Author:Gar Alperovitz
“For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals of egalitarian society. But you start at the local level, both at the workplace, community and other institutions and you reconstruct the egalitarian democratized structure as well as participatory structure. And as this happens, we learn more how to move toward the vision that is much larger than just the community level.” YearsWellsHas BeensHappensMovingGoalCommunityWealthLevelsVisionKeysArgumentInstitutionsStructureLocalsOwnershipWorkplace Author:Gar Alperovitz
