hope....a market without capitalism

[undergroundpanther]

Do you feel upset about the hungry in America? Disgusted at the obscene wealth alongside the poor.Sick of rich pigs screwing people and feeling futile about it?..Break out of the sick system of the"kingdom" mentality and do an 'economy' ANOTHER way..


37 ways you can participate in the Gift Economy. What else can we each do to bring about a Gift Economy? The most important things we can do are internal -- transformation of the way we look at our world and its economic principles and the way we act towards others and the world in which we live. Chris calls it "passion bounded by responsibility". Responsibility simply accepted, not thrust upon us. Passion that comes from understanding and the sense of personal capacity. We need to constantly engage ourselves and others in communication and connection, and fight furiously the media paradigm of passive consumption and the market-economy paradigm of only giving when we receive measurable fair value in return. We need to constantly invite each other to address the all-important question What do you really care about?

When we engage each other in conversations about this question, we open up possibilities, we begin to feel and realize our own power, capacity, and mastery, we recognize that generosity has nothing to do with charity, and we sense the movement and strength of collective understanding, will and passion. We realize that together, collectively, collaboratively, we know more, and know better, than leaders, presidents, executives, economists, experts, and others who exploit our passivity to tell us what we should do and believe, and engender in us feelings of helplessness, dependence, and addiction. We have more capacity and power to act than all the multinational corporations and the tyrants and the state apparatus of control and repression.
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/04/17.html


Here are two places that do this,and walk their talk.

http://www.freestorebaltimore.org/


http://www.geocities.com/freedetroit2005/FreeStoreFirstPage.htm

How could money's characteristics as a usurious instrument of power be overcome, without eliminating its positive qualities as a neutral medium of exchange ?
He attributed this market-dominating power to two fundamental characteristics of conventional money:
Firstly, money as a medium of demand is capable of being hoarded in contrast to human labor or goods and services on the supply side of the economic equation. It can be temporarily withheld from the market for speculative purposes without its holder being exposed to significant losses.
Secondly, money enjoys the advantage of superior liquidity to goods and services. In other words, it can be put into use at almost any time or place and so enjoys a flexibility of deployment similar to that of a joker in a card game.
These two characteristics of money give its holders a privileged position over the suppliers of goods and services. This is especially true for those who hold or control large amounts of money.
They can disrupt the dynamic flow of economic activity, of purchases and sales, savings and investment. This power enables the holders of money to demand the payment of interest as a reward for agreeing to refrain from speculative hoarding thereby allowing money to circulate in the economy.

This intrinsic power of money is not dependent on its actual hoarding, but rather on its potential to disrupt economic activity which enables it to extract a tribute in the form of interest in return for allowing the "metabolic exchange" of goods and services in the "social organism". The "return on capital" is accorded priority over broader economic considerations and production becomes attuned more to the monetary interest rate than to the real needs of human beings.

http://www.localdevelopment.net/article.php?sid=12

Think about it...We do not need money to care..we need to create a human based market and care about EACH OTHER and share what we have to get what we need..

[Joanne98]

1. I think all taxes and regulations should be zeroed out for small

businesses. Then we could re-build from the ground up. We could bring back things like the barter system and the fascists wouldn't be able to track anything.