This is really worth viewing and digesting! Definitely supports the principles of The Just Third Way (see http://cesj.org/thirdway/thirdway-intro.htm)
Gar Alperovitz states that there is growing sentiment on on sides that either we transform this system or profound difficulties such as violence and probable repression and fascism will result. There has got to be a better way.
At the Green Party’s 2012 National Convention in Baltimore over the weekend, Massachusetts physician Jill Stein and anti-poverty campaigner Cheri Honkala were nominated the party’s presidential and vice-presidential contenders. We air the convention’s keynote address delivered by Gar Alperovitz, a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Alperovitz is the author of, “America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy.” In his remarks, Alperovitz stressed the importance of third-party politics to challenge a corporate-run society. “Systems in history are defined above all by who controls the wealth,” Alperovitz says. “The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.” [Includes rush transcript]
