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It's Time to Get Serious About Systemic Solutions to Systemic Problems

It’s Time to Get Serious About Systemic Solutions to Systemic Problems

Gus Speth

Gus Speth

Distinguished Next System Fellow more

Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz

Distinguished Next System Fellow more

Movement Strategy & History

In this article, published by CommonDreams, political economist, historian, and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative Gar Alperovitz along with distinguished fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project Gus Speth discuss the current state of systemic crisis and the possibility of systemic solutions. While understanding and defining the problem of the system itself is easy, Alperovitz and Speth state that finding the answer is much more difficult. And so, they look towards the youth of today to help discover systemic solutions, because if this generation does not, their future will remain grim.

It is time to begin a real conversation—locally, nationally and at all levels—about what a genuine alternative beyond corporate capitalism and state socialism would look like, and how we would build it.

Read the full article at CommonDreams.

Gus Speth

Gus Speth

Distinguished Next System Fellow more

Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz

Distinguished Next System Fellow more

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