ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that differentiating among some aspects and consciously dealing with each of them can be a major help in formulating a strategy of protest and change. The three aspects are: The material, the economic structure of the system, how it produces, how it distributes its production, to what extent the material conditions of life are satisfied for society's members. The political: the governmental structure of the system, how decisions are made, who holds the power of state, what counter forces are actually present. The cultural: the social structure, the multiple forces part of and shaping people's psyches. The chapter explains a single consistent world view: that capitalism has proven an enormously productive organization of society, opening possibilities for what earlier might haves been considered entirely Utopian human existence, but that capitalism has exhausted its possibilities in that direction and has limited than extended possibilities of human happiness by its one-dimension fixation on growth and profit as its motor.
