Ongoing

Ett sätt att se på demokrati är att betrakta det som ett system för konfliktlösning, där flertalets vilja ska ha större auktoritet än fåtalets och där flertal och fåtal fastläggs i omröstningar. Vi kallar det val. Man skulle kanske också kunna slåss om saken.

Céline Dion is one of the world’s most successful artists of all time, with more than 175 million records sold. At the same time, she is hated by the majority of credible music- and cultural connoisseurs

The challenge that the capitalist system and its institutions is now faced with can be likened to structures, leaderships and businesses being of different generations.

That the capitalist system does not strive for the greater good (practical legitimacy) is clear from, for example, the Swedish Companies Act that stipulates that a company should enrich its owners, period.

Once upon a time nature was animate. It consisted of creatures (spirits, gnomes, trolls), and we still refer to our need to ”listen to”, ”talk to” or in fact ”understand” nature. When inventions like the telescope and the microscope allowed us to see things we had never seen before this nature was de-personalised. And now having a conversation with nature seemed less important – now it was all about measuring and weighing it. This was the origin of what we know as science today.

Det låter som en sagotitel, men texten är en reflektion som utgår från observationen att det kapitalistiska systemet för första gången är det dominerande ekonomiska systemet, globalt. Vad innebär det ansvaret, inte minst för kapitalismens kanske främsta institution: ägandet?

We have in previous articles concluded that data does not support the notion that Europe is not undergoing a right wing nationalist wave as some claim. In truth, values are moving slowly toward the more liberal end. So why are we daily being fed the opposite notion?