In my previous column I identified our oppressor as our culture, shaped by laissez-faire capitalism, which posits competition as our natural condition and the iron law of winners and losers. I urged us to disengage from that culture at the personal level and contest it at the political level. My focus here is on disengagement.Our first step must be to discredit those twin assumptions, to deny that by nature we humans, individually or collectively, must regard each other as competitors [...]
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