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The Left Needs a Vision: A Response to Chris Hedges, Sheldon Wolin, and Pepe Escobar

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[1] Empire of Chaos: The Roving Eye Collection: Vol. 1. (Ann Arbor, MI: Nimble Books, LLC, 2014), 4.

[2] Robert C. Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978), 469. Quotations from the Communist Manifesto below are taken from this volume.

[3] Chris Hedges, "What it Means to Be a Socialist," 20 September 2015:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_it_means_to_be_a_socialist_20150920

[4] Ibid.

[5] Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), 289.

[6] John Hick, An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent. Second Edition (New Haven: Yale University Press), Chap.18.

[7] The Meaning of Socialism (LaSalle, IL: Open Court Publisher, 1990), 15.

[8] See my account of these thinkers in Millennium Dawn: The Philosophy of Planetary Crisis and Human Liberation (Appomattox, VA: Institute for Economic Democracy Press, 2005), Chap. 6.

[9] See my One World Renaissance: Holistic Global Transformation Through a Global Social Contract (Appomattox, VA: Institute for Economic Democracy Press, 2016).

[10] Critique of the Gotha Program in Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader.

[11] The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2007).

[12] See R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (New York: Pocket Books, 1972). Fuller writes: "Capitalism and socialism are mutually extinct. Why? Because science now finds that there can be ample for all, but only if sovereign fences are completely removed" (p. 35).

[13] See my Historical Introduction to the Constitution for the Federation of Earth (Appomattox, VA: Institute for Economic Democracy Press, 2010).

[14] The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 2000), 5, 6 & 9.

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