Riane Eisler

I spent way too long blogging about Jared Diamond this morning and don’t have time to say much about our guest on tomorrow night’s Phone Forum, Riane Eisler, except that she has been at the megahistory business much longer than Diamond, and she is equally at ease with the corporate elite as he is, but she tells them in no uncertain terms that Capitalism isn’t going to cut it.

Left audiences like to hear her say that. But what she tells them is this: Socialism also won’t cut it.

Both are subject to the same kind of economism that fails to see that “the real wealth of nations–and the world–consists of the contributions of people and nature.” Both neglect the non-monetary segments of the economy: the contributions of natural systems and of unpaid work, most of it by women. Of course, they could both change: but then they would be partnership systems, which is something radically different.

Eisler is a visionary and a practical promoter of partnership politics and economics in public policy, the corporate world, and progressive movements. So I am thrilled that she is joining us on our Tikkun Phone Forum tomorrow evening.

You too can join the Phone Forum tomorrow, Monday December 7, at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time (9:00 p.m. Eastern) when I will interview Riane Eisler, and you can ask her questions and make your own comments.
Just call 1 888 346 3950 and ENTER CODE 11978#.

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If you can before the call, please first read Riane Eisler’s article “Roadmap to a New Economics: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism” in your print copy of Tikkun. It is also on sale at many stores and as a single copy online here. To subscribe to the magazine, please go here.

Later you can listen to the interview here and you can go there right now to see what other amazing audio we have with Tikkun authors — a new one each week.

To get full details about the Phone Forum please check at www.tikkun.org, in the box at the top, or here. See “Don’t Miss the Phone Forum!” on this blog, though it’s high time I did an updated version of that.