"Buen Vivir" suggestion or hope for the world? And they know? Utopia? 
"Buen Vivir
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for a new democracy on earth " by Giuseppe De Marzo is a very interesting book. It 's a book that presents what is considered the most utopian, a new way of thinking about the new world that seems so impossible but in fact what is urgently imperative for the survival of the world and man: change the current relations of domination in favor of the human environment 'balance man - nature.
The essay starts with the observation of the scenario of the global crisis we are in and the difficulty of international politics and Italian to extend the analysis of the crisis and to discuss with more specificity the reasons for its origin, and the new subjectivities and new relations of force that are manifested in it.
In fact, in Italy there was talk and talk almost exclusively of a general economic crisis but it is in fact a crisis with multiple arms, a crisis that not only economic, it is also financial, environmental, food, migration, energy, society and democracy.
We are living, namely, a crisis that, for the first time, is a structural crisis and vertical pattern of Western society, a crisis that is our paradigm of civilization, or, again, a crisis that we have developed the idea of modernity from the Enlightenment onwards.
The answer that the policy has given to this crisis, moving in the wake of the socio-economic model of development, is a very weak response.
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restart production to boost consumption " is the slogan that there is daily brought out of this impasse, but now you can not imagine the solution of these crises in the development model that has caused: you can not push a concept of infinite economic growth in the face of a planet with finite resources.
Earth, to date, already unable to produce more than 30% of the needs of production and consumption of human beings, and even if, ironically, the Western development model was exported all over the world and if all men in all places of the earth to consume the same way, we would need 5 extra planets. The
buen vivir, then, life as close interconnection between human society and life cycles, living so that Homo economicus is no longer seen as the exclusive domain of the earth but as an admin for a common good, an economic approach that goes beyond life and finally the neo liberalism, it becomes a 'global emergency and a requirement!
However, it is only in some parts of the world, Latin America, Africa, India, which have been achieved striking results in this way!
In Bolivia and Ecuador, for example, the Constitution has been renovated and put in the middle life in harmony with nature, nature of the entire community is involved.
In these countries, concepts such as popular education, mutualism, social justice, creativity and Decolonization of power have the tools and practices of a new democracy on Earth.
These testimonies confirm that you can combine economy with protection of the environment, which you can test a new social pact and rethink the forms of representation, and it is possible to the extent that you can decolonize your imagination to point to rewrite a new idea of \u200b\u200bdemocracy that is based on a constant and steady increase in participation in public life and community choices by citizens.
What catches the eye, however, is the fact that while the peoples of the South are making great strides in bringing their protest and creating alternative credible and workable, are considering a real change in the design and implementation of new lifestyles, the northern hemisphere appears to remain unaware of his back and be out of date.
A well look around, however, can be recognized in Italy small signs of what is termed the geography of hope, that the positive signals coming from those that define good moving company more than movements, which have introjected the need to defend the common good, and then to expand democracy and participation, and that a daily struggle not only to defend the common good but to affirm wider idea of \u200b\u200bdemocracy.
And we talk, for example, ecological communities affected by conflict eg. networks and committees against coal and gas turbine (as is the case in Benevento), committees against the landfill, No Tav and moves from the Molin No and many others.
These moving companies are often labeled as "those of no" but in reality there are many behind every no, yes you are a new development model for the safety and land reclamation for the defense of common goods, for a more just and ecologically-oriented economy, to reduce consumption of unnecessary and counterproductive, for the diffusion of sustainable energy and mobility, for participatory democracy, for organic farming, for recycling, reuse and recycling ... This scenario builds his action and his proposals. Proposals, often ignored by the media and political institutions, which tend to the creation of an economic model different from the present and an inclusive democracy. A democracy that increasingly and to a chronic tendency to exclude those who have decided to take another step with respect to schizophrenia, as unproductive and effective tax rate of global economic competition, which in turn leads to anything good
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Thus, there is also a geography of Italy in the hope that it will optimally tune with everything which again comes from Latin America, India, Africa, there is a human connection, political, social, independent of linguistic diversity, with populations of Bolivia and Ecuador.
I think it's worth getting involved in the experience of taking a cue from these countries'
Article 8 of the Bolivian constitution "
The State assumes and promotes as ethical and moral principles of a plural society, the following recommendations: do not be lazy not be a liar, do not be thief, live a good life and harmony in a land without evil and started on a path noble. "
reform in this sense, our idea of \u200b\u200blife and relationships, rethink the concept of participatory democracy in the key, return to center stage of progress, development and modernity and the areas and people in the flesh, may with a good chance to allow the word "Krisis" to lose the negative sense that currently characterizes and will regain the original meaning of "time that separates one from another way of being different."
This seems like a good food for thought for all of Italian politics but, in particular, for our politicians and local administrators, mayors and candidates for those who are incorporating gender in local elections next spring.
It 'really so far from the South San Giorgio del Sannio, for example? We are not here in the land of flowers and courtesy, slaves of a decades-long economic boom
failure in key commercial ?
we not also part of us, knowingly and outline the cycle of dioxin
that, by the fire hall on Barletta, creeps silently in our land and we are being revived in the form of fruits and vegetables or eggs or meat to be slaughtered?
Are we not ourselves victims of reckless
who have "sold" as necessary in view of future development in key technology and collaboration with the University of Sannio, which would have brought here to St. George hundreds of new families because of the hundreds of jobs to be created in those areas? We do not live
perhaps a deficit of democratic participation that administrators decide to head to spend their money the municipality for the construction of an unnecessary, inappropriate and historically ugly monument rather than the real needs of the country?
We also share with us that the dominant economic system in which
work is reduced to a mere commodity ?
are we not involved in a continuous and constant deruralizzazione under a PUC villain and the illusion of an urban village, and flowers and courtesy in fact, that his green could have a motive driving its development in key label?
The prospect of recovering and developing what we are, or men and women included in the natural cycle, the prospect of spending by Homo economicus understood as ruler of the world and nature to the human administrator of property and common resources all men, not just a suggestion but it is a vision that will allow us to give our children a future and a safe life harmonious and happy.
Friday, February 4 at 18:30 at L @ P Asilo31 Via Firenze (Liberty District) to Benevento, Tommaso Sodano meeting and presentation of his latest book " La Peste. My battle against waste of Italian politics, "a raw and topical book, which had long been anticipated, one by one, all names that are then finished in the recent investigation of the ecological disaster of leachate into the sea. 
