Pbog 50 days to save the planet 2 oct 2012

50 Days to Save the Planet Human Development is our Sustainable Future

➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture

My global perspective

Clive Burgess ©2012

50 Days to Save the Planet Human Development a Sustainable Future

Marxists hold that in human society activity in production develops step by step from a lower to a higher level and that consequently man's knowledge, whether of nature or of society, also develops step by step from a lower to a higher level, that is, from the shallower to the deeper, from the one-sided to the many-sided. For a very long period in history, men were necessarily confined to a one-sided understanding of the history of society because, for one thing, the bias of the exploiting classes always distorted history and, for another, the small scale of production limited man's outlook. It was not until the modern proletariat emerged along with immense forces of production (large-scale industry) that man was able to acquire a comprehensive, historical understanding of the development of society and turn this knowledge into a science, the (social) science of Marxism.●ON PRACTICE: On the Relation Between Knowledge and Practice, Between Knowing and Doing Mao Tse-tung July 1937

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/index.htm

50 Days to Save the Planet Human Development is our a Sustainable Future

The Story of Stuff

The Reproduction of Everyday LifeReproduction & Transformation

Transcendence

Crisis of Capitalism

What about theSTATE?

On PracticeKnowledge & Practice

Knowing & Doing

ConsumerismThe

HiddenPersuaders


50 Days to Save the Planet Human Development is a Sustainable Future

Control & ResistanceReproduction & Transformation

● The sociology of organisational life● A reflection of social reality

● 'Social' Activities● 'Social' Relationships

PBOG

CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Processes

Clive Burgess ©2012Clive Burgess 2007 2011

Colin Burgess 1984 2001 2004

50 Days to Save the Planet Human Development ~ not a Sustainable Future

Interventionist State ~ Welfare State

National Democratic State ~ laissez faire capitalism 'Big society'

Constitutional State ~ Legislative State Law codification

Territorial State ~ Clans, Kingdoms & Tribes

State-Monopoly Capitalism with a Liberal Democratic Ideology


Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships...● The State ~ Historical Development of the State

Church

Enlightenment

Climate Change

The ViciousCircle

50 Days to Save the Planet Human Development ~ not a Sustainable Future

Interventionist State ~ Welfare State

National Democratic State ~ laissez faire capitalism 'Big society'

Constitutional State ~ Legislative State Law codification

Territorial State ~ Clans, Kingdoms & Tribes

State-Monopoly Capitalism with a Liberal Democratic Ideology


Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships...● The State ~ Historical Development of the State

'Free' Market Enterprise - Thatcherism

Business Capture – Sustainable Development

Kings,Queens,Chiefs, Princes, Princesses, Lords, Lairds,etc

Church

House of Parliament – House of Lords

Enlightenment Entrepreneurial Capitalism & Philanthropic Benefactors

Climate Change

Natural Capitalism & Corporate Social Responsibility

50 Days to Save the PlanetHuman Development is a Sustainable Future

'Social' Activities 'Social' Relationships➔ Control & Resistance➔ Reproduction & Transformation

Cultural lag Paradigm shiftThe Reproduction of Everyday Life - Fredy Perlman

CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Processes

Clive Burgess ©2012 Colin Burgess 1984 2001 2004 2011

The State ~ Historical Development of the State

50 Days to Save the PlanetHuman Development is a Sustainable Future

The Reproduction of Everyday Life - Fredy Perlman


the capitalist system is neither the natural nor the final form of human society; likethe earlier social forms, capitalism is a specific response to material and historicalconditions .

➔ Excessive power of finance capital not excessive labour power➔ Diminished wages produced a credit economy & tripled debt➔ Capitalism never solves its problems it just moves them around

➔ It circumvents or transcends its problems jumping barriers with financial innovation

1. Human Factors

2. Institutional failure

3. Obsessed with fake theory

4. Cultural origins

5. Failure of policy● David Harvey chose none of the above

50 Days to Save the PlanetHuman Development ~ not a Sustainable Future

The Crises of Capitalism

➔Harvey April 2010 Clive Burgess ©2012

50 Days to Save the Planet

➔ Collaboration➔ Transcendence● Historical overview

● Owners● Controllers● Producers

➔ Symbols ~ what's going on symbolically?➔ Politics ~ what's going on politically?➔ Structure ~ what's going on structurally?➔ Human Resources ~ what is going on from this perspective?

CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Aspects

Reframing Organisations

The Class Struggle


Colin Burgess 1984 2001 2004 2012

Human Development is a Sustainable Future

50 Days to Save the PlanetHuman Development ~ Choices

If Capitalist take cont r ol it will become an extension of Auster ity

If Socialist take cont r ol it will become inclusive and none exploitat ive social just ice

“Is it time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within asystem that could beresponsible just & humane?” David Harvey 26th April 2010

Internal Contradictions of Capital Accumulation

Accumulation by dispossession – primitive accumulation Harvey 2010



Privatisation was never simply about the sale of nationalised industries and utilities but included restructuring the economy to increase capital accumulation. It is “...a comprehensive strategy for permanently restructuring the welfares state and public services in the interests of capital” (Whitfield 1983)

Deconstructing democracy... financialisation, personalisation, marketisation and privatisation are designed to...

Marketisation of public services...Marketisation creates the conditions whereby full privatisation becomes inevitable.

The mutation of privatisation

➔ Dispossession, Disinvestment, Destabilisation, De-politicisation, Dis-empowerment in effect the de-construction of democracy at

local, national and international levels.

Clive Burgess ©2012 Whitefield 2012


“Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction in consumption ...we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever accelerating rate”

The birth of consumerism Victor LeBo?

The Story of Stuff ~ ● Annie Leanard


Extraction Production Distribution

Consumerism DisposalConsumerism Disposal

50 Days to Save the PlanetHuman Development ~ for a Sustainable Future

The Story of Stuff➔ Planned Obsolescence

there are plenty of points of intervention inthe supply chain that we can change ~

but we need to change our patterns ofbehaviour and the way we are organised...

➔ Perceived Obsolescence

Change the system & processes now beforeit's too late ~ Time is running out!Clive Burgess ©2012

Trashing the planet ~ wasting resources &people's potential ~ Recycling helps...

50 Days to Save the Planet Human Potential will produce a Sustainable Future if allowed to Develop

➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture

My global perspective

Clive Burgess ©2012Thank You for your time & energy Clive Live

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