Monday, April 5, 2010

Social Capitalism in Theory & Practice

by Robert Corfe
http://yunusphere.net/2008/03/06/social-capitalism-robert-corfe/

"In the first volume of my book, Social Capitalism in Theory & Practice, I’ve

explained how industrialised societies in the developed world are ready for such a transformed view of humanity and such a fresh approach to politics.

37 – In the same volume I’ve also elaborated on the need for such a viewpoint, on the grounds that a fair and egalitarian society can only be achieved through the willing cooperation of all sectors of society.

38 – I’ve also argued strongly that a fair, free, and egalitarian society can never be achieved by Socialism as we’ve known it, for a host of reasons, but primarily because:- 1. The spirit and aims of collectivism contradict the needs of freedom and the individual; 2. The resentment of class consciousness oppresses aspirational values; 3. The bureaucratisation of enterprise destroys the business dynamic, and hence imposes an authoritarian elite for production and distribution; and 4. and most significantly, the idealisation of a proletarian class – however that is defined – has not led to a free and egalitarian society, but on the contrary and everywhere, to a society which is shackled by the restrictions of its limited vision.

39 – Social Capitalism, as described in the second and third volumes of my book, is dependent on the ownership and management of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, not by any abstract collective entity, but by individuals at the grass roots level, and through their influence on the hierarchy of authority.

40 – This is made practicable through changes to company law in conjunction with proven systems of co-determination and employee share-ownership. It leads to what I have described as the Responsible Society."

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