Transformative change? It starts with community

The greatest weapon the one per cent has is our isolation from each other. And all efforts to defeat neo-liberalism no matter how valiant, inspired, smart or sustained will fail unless they somehow, ultimately contribute to the rebuilding of community.

The dominant form of politics in fact reduces most people to passive consumers of politics just as they are consumers of goods. As consumers of politics rather than intentional citizens we simultaneously abdicate responsibility and end up indulging in the culture of complaint. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY MURRAY DOBBIN

January 9, 2017

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—As has been pointed out by too many people, 2016 was a devastating year for progressives (a homely term for all those who want equality, democracy, and ecological sanity). There is no need to repeat the list of atrocities, failures, and disappointments as we all have them indeli...

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