Whar's going on... see what's occuring PBOG 50 days to save the planet.... moving forward _ Development..

1. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development is our Sustainable Future
A working hypothesis
by Clive Burgess October 2012
My global perspective
➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures
Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger
picture
Clive Burgess ©2012

2. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development a Sustainable Future
Marxists hold that in human society activity in production develops step by step
from a lower to a higher level and that consequently man's knowledge, whether of
nature or of society, also develops step by step from a lower to a higher level, that
is, from the shallower to the deeper, from the one-sided to the many-sided. For a
very long period in history, men were necessarily confined to a one-sided
understanding of the history of society because, for one thing, the bias of the
exploiting classes always distorted history and, for another, the small scale of
production limited man's outlook. It was not until the modern proletariat
emerged along with immense forces of production (large-scale industry) that
man was able to acquire a comprehensive, historical understanding of the
development of society and turn this knowledge into a science, the (social)
science of Marxism.
●ON PRACTICE: On the Relation Between Knowledge and Practice,
Between Knowing and Doing Mao Tse-tung July 1937

3. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development is our a Sustainable Future
Crisis of Capitalism The Story of Stuff
On Practice
Knowledge & Practice
Knowing & Doing
What about the
STATE?
Consumerism
The
Hidden
Persuaders
The Reproduction of Everyday Life
Reproduction & Transformation
Transcendence
Clive Burgess ©2012

4. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development is a Sustainable Future
CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Processes
Control & Resistance
Reproduction & Transformation
● 'Social' Activities
● 'Social' Relationships
Colin Burgess 1984 2001 2004
PBOG
● The sociology of organisational life
● A reflection of social reality
Clive Burgess 2007 2011
Clive Burgess ©2012

5. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development ~ not a Sustainable Future
State-Monopoly Capitalism with a Liberal Democratic Ideology
Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships...
● The State ~ Historical Development of the State
Climate Change
Interventionist State ~ Welfare State
The
Vicious
Circle
National Democratic State ~ laissez faire capitalism 'Big society'
Enlightenment
Constitutional State ~ Legislative State Law codification
Territorial State ~ Clans, Kingdoms & Tribes
Church
Clive Burgess ©2012

6. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development ~ not a Sustainable Future
State-Monopoly Capitalism with a Liberal Democratic Ideology
Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships...
● The State ~ Historical Development of the State
Climate Change
Interventionist State ~ Welfare State
Business Capture – Sustainable Development
Natural Capitalism & Corporate Social Responsibility
'Free' Market Enterprise - Thatcherism
National Democratic State ~ laissez faire capitalism 'Big society'
Entrepreneurial Capitalism & Philanthropic Benefactors
Enlightenment
Constitutional State ~ Legislative State Law codification
House of Parliament – House of Lords
Kings,Queens,Chiefs, Princes, Princesses, Lords, Lairds,etc
Territorial State ~ Clans, Kingdoms & Tribes
Church
Clive Burgess ©2012

7. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development is a Sustainable Future
CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Processes
'Social' Activities 'Social' Relationships
➔ Control & Resistance
➔ Reproduction & Transformation
The State ~ Historical Development of the State
Cultural lag
Paradigm shift
The Reproduction of Everyday Life -
Fredy Perlman
Clive Burgess ©2012 Colin Burgess 1984 2001 2004 2011

8. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development is a Sustainable Future
The Reproduction of Everyday Life - Fredy Perlman
the capitalist system is neither the natural nor the final form of human society; like
the earlier social forms, capitalism is a specific response to material and historical
conditions .
Clive Burgess ©2012

9. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development ~ not a Sustainable Future
The Crises of Capitalism
1. Human Factors
2. Institutional failure
3. Obsessed with fake theory
➔ It circumvents or transcends its
4. Cultural origins problems jumping barriers with
5. Failure of policy financial innovation
● David Harvey chose none of the above
➔ Excessive power of finance capital not excessive labour power
➔ Diminished wages produced a credit economy & tripled debt
➔ Capitalism never solves its problems it just moves them around
➔Harvey April 2010 Clive Burgess ©2012

10. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development is a Sustainable Future
CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Aspects
➔ Collaboration The Class Struggle
➔ Transcendence ● Owners
● Historical overview ● Controllers
Colin Burgess 1984 2001 2004 2012 ● Producers
Reframing Organisations
➔ Symbols ~ what's going on symbolically?
➔ Politics ~ what's going on politically?
➔ Structure ~ what's going on structurally?
➔
Human Resources ~ what is going on from this perspective?
Clive Burgess ©2012

11. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development ~ Choices
If Capit alist t ake cont r ol it will becom e an ext ension of
Aust er it y
If Socialist t ake cont r ol it will becom e inclusive and none
exploit at ive social j ust ice
“Is it time to look beyond
capitalism towards a new social order
that would allow us to live within a
system that could be
responsible just & humane?”
David Harvey 26th April 2010
Internal Contradictions of Capital Accumulation
Accumulation by dispossession – primitive accumulation
Clive Burgess ©2012
Harvey 2010

12. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development ~ not a Sustainable Future
The mutation of privatisation
Privatisation was never simply about the sale of nationalised
industries and utilities but included restructuring the economy to
increase capital accumulation. It is “...a comprehensive strategy
for permanently restructuring the welfares state and public
services in the interests of capital” (Whitfield 1983)
Marketisation of public services...Marketisation creates the
conditions whereby full privatisation becomes inevitable.
Deconstructing democracy... financialisation, personalisation,
marketisation and privatisation are designed to...
➔ Dispossession, Disinvestment, Destabilisation, De-politicisation,
Dis-empowerment in effect the de-construction of democracy at
local, national and international levels.
Clive Burgess ©2012 Whitefield 2012

13. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development ~ not a Sustainable Future
The Story of Stuff ~ ● Annie Leanard
“Our enormously productive economy demands that we make
consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use
of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our
ego satisfaction in consumption ...we need things consumed,
burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever accelerating rate”
The birth of consumerism Victor LeBo?
Extraction Production Distribution
Consumerism Disposal
Consumerism Disposal
Clive Burgess ©2012

14. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Development ~ for a Sustainable Future
The Story of Stuff
➔
Planned Obsolescence
➔
Perceived Obsolescence
Trashing the planet ~ wasting resources &
people's potential ~ Recycling helps...
but we need to change our patterns of
behaviour and the way we are organised...
there are plenty of points of intervention in
the supply chain that we can change ~
Change the system & processes now before
it's too late ~ Time is running out!
Clive Burgess ©2012

15. 50 Days to Save the Planet
Human Potential will produce a Sustainable Future if allowed to Develop
A working hypothesis
by Clive Burgess October 2012
My global perspective
➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures
Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger
picture Thank You for your time & energy Clive Live
Clive Burgess ©2012