What political, economic and doctrinal managers have in common is a profound contempt for democratic freedom. Any freedom worth its salt has to be predicated on stakeholders self-managing their affairs transparently, with full accountability, and without hierarchies (in other words, wage labor would be abolished to make way for free creative labor, the overriding principle being that of worker self-managed production for human needs, with the economic system naturally subordinated to human rights and needs). Democracy is predicated on the wide dispersal of power and wealth, where state, corporate and church power are dissolved (hence with no governing, employing and mollifying class), with no repressive police force and virtually no prison system, with no national boundaries, with free education at every level, and with free or very affordable health care and housing for all. In brief, the profit motive would be done away with under libertarian arrangements, since it evidently entails too much mean-spiritedness. Is this a dream? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But if it is, it is definitely one worth pursuing, for the love of life