Sustainable Capitalism 2.0 is on the march…

CEOs Need a New Set of Beliefs – Raymond V. Gilmartin – HBS Faculty – Harvard Business Review
http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2011/09/ceos-need-a-new-set-of-beliefs.html

From: “Norman Berdichevsky”

 

Nazis in Newark 1933-41; a Parallel Universe with Today

by Norman Berdichevsky

Book Review of Nazis in Newark
by Warren Glover
Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ. 2003
ISBN 978-0-7658-0516-4

The crisis we face today that has resulted in an ever more aggressive and truculent, militant Islam threatening the foundations of Western civilization from without and within, bears an uncanny parallel, almost a parallel universe, with the dreadful anxiety-filled 1930s, when a virulent Nazism intimidated and cowed much of public opinion throughout the United States.

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Centroids :
The following annotated list of 10 core Radical Centrist values was initially inspired by Mark Satin’s August 2007  article from his Radical Middle Newsletter, under the title– Post-Partisan Politics: First American Political Ideology?

 In that essay Mark detailed his ideas for 10 Radical Centrist “principles.”  However, reading the material it struck me that better terminology for what he had written was “values.” Principles, at least as I understand them,  have a more operational sense rather than an inspirational sense. To be sure, this is partly a subjective call. Depending on context one can be the other. Yet there already is a set of 10 Principles which are essentially operational in nature which was written for our group in December of 2010. And we could now use a set of  values.

 

By  no  means did I agree with all of Mark’s ideas;  in a couple of cases, especially, I disagreed strongly. And some of what he said has already been expressed at RadicalCentrism.orgin other ways. Regardless, by and large his work is thoughtful and has considerable merit on its own terms. Yet there are other ways to say some of the things he put into words,  and none of what follows is a simple duplication of the Radical Middle statements of “principle.” There also was an agenda in this set of 10 RC Values which is uniquely our own. I wanted to integrate into the overall new essay a number of important ideas that have been expressed in our group over the years, or very recently. Hence you will find ideas that Ernie has emphasized in the past, or myself, or David, or others at one time or another. This also includes Doug Johnson, although the subject he is most closely identified with, a Radical Centrist philosophy of education, is only discussed along the way and deserves special treatment. His 2008 essay, “Change from the Radical Center of Education”  will need to suffice for now, but is so good as it is that the best I might be able to do by way of picking up on the topic would be to add some considerations. It is very difficult to try and find anything “wrong” with his article.

None, or almost none, of the 10 Values corresponds with the categories in Mark’s essay. The new article only starts from Mark’s work ;  everything has been re-thought, with ideas from our group woven into the overall text in different ways in different places.

Doubtless not everyone will agree that these are “the” 10 values of Radical Centrism. Or, more likely, some may agree with half, even with most, but have reservations about the rest or simply think that some items would benefit from revision.  Some may wish to add other Values to the set.

This is an attempt to put it all together, the best I could for now. Suggestions are welcome, as are criticisms.

Billy

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The best exposition I’ve ever heard of what the true Radical Center represents; Ghandi-an but committed to enforcing the rule of law. Powerful stuff. 

Fourteenth Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lecture
http://www.newdelhi.mission.gov.lk/index.php/india-sri-lanka-relations/388-62nd-independence-day-message-of-hon-prime-minister-