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[rafter sass ferguson <liberationecology@gmail.com>]

Hi Scott,

I think the article I linked to would probably answer your question. But in
case you don't feel like reading it, here you go:

I'm borrowing the definition of capitalism that has been used for the last
30 years by the Center for Popular Economics. Capitalism is a
political-economic system characterized overwhelmingly by these 5 elements:
(1) Private ownership of the means of production
(2) Wage labor (i.e. selling your labor to an owner)
(3) Production for sale (not for use)
(4) Market exchange (as the central mechanism for making allocation
decisions)
(5) Profit maximization (as the central mechanisms for making production
decisions)

I'm using the term entrepreneurial enterprise to refer to people taking
risks with their resources to try and make a living as their own boss (or
co-boss with their colleagues) - to try and turn their big ideas and
ambition into a livelihood.

Hope that clarifies things.

Warmly,
Rafter



On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Scott Pittman <scott@permaculture.org>wrote:

> Before we start the conversation I would like to know what is the
> difference
> in the dichotomy you present "entrepreneurial enterprise" and
> "...capitalism"??
>
> Scott
>
> "To change something build a new model that makes the existing model
> obsolete"  Buckminster Fuller
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> ferguson
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 3:11 PM
> To: NE PC Listserv; permaculture; permaculture
> Subject: [permaculture] Confronting the Context: Permaculture and
> Capitalism
>
> Here's hoping for some *new* conversations about capitalism and
> permaculture - because we've heard all the old ones enough times by now...
>
> So let's sound the funeral dirge for that ol' smoke 'n' mirrors that says
> we have to choose between *entrepreneurial enterprise* and *opposing,
> undermining, and replacing capitalism.*
>
> See you in the comments!
>
>
> http://liberationecology.org/2013/09/11/confronting-context-permaculture-cap
> italism/
>
> Warmly,
> Rafter
>
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Rafter Sass Ferguson, MS
PhD Candidate | Crop Sciences Department
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
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518 567 7407