What do you think of this Social Justice Statement proposed for SoFA?

[cj.oreilly]

This may warrant a separate thread altogether, but… I struggle a little bit with the dialogue around economic systems because it’s often not very specific, nor nuanced, and is generally just highly charged.

I found specifying a type of capitalism helpful because it was more specific about something which people often throw around without a lot of specificity.

So yeah… I would love to talk more specifically about the critique of capitalism, but I think it’s a bit off topic for this thread as a whole. Would you (and anyone else interested), be up for picking that conversation up here:

Economic Systems & Social Justice for Sociocracy & Self Organizing - Beyond Capitalism

In the thread about SoFA’s developing Social Justice statement, the use of the term “extractive capitalism” was picked out for discussion. In order to avoid hijacking the thread, I suggested we talk a bit more about about economic systems, starting with a critique of capitalism here instead. Personally, I appreciated the use of the term " extractive capitalism" in the statement because I tend to see capitalism broadly demonized without much specificity or nuance in its critique. To me, this i…