American - Activist | July 26, 1950 -
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
Susan George
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Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
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I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.
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The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
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Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.
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This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
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The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
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How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.
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If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
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Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.
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There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
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