Article: Another world is possible: Prometheus or Pandora.(Excerpt)

Prometheus or Pandora?

Driven by the ideal of private ownership of just about everything on Planet Earth, neo-liberal capitalism undermines social cohesion and justice for the sake of profits, competition, consumption and technological growth. (1) These values are the last ideological subterfuge of a modernity that has lost its moorings. Their hegemony has resulted in a rule of the marketplace and a commodification of existence that is largely responsible for the double wall of ecological menace and social degradation that blocks the future. In their shadow, the Promethean idealism that created the modern world has vanished. They are compatible neither with the ...

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