Corporatist economics creates giant, global business organizations and concentrates property ownership into the hands of oligarchs. Corporatist economics creates massive obstacles to property accumulation for ordinary individuals.
"True dat, G, but how does that relate to local or personal sufficiency? Such topics seem to be more macro-economic in nature, rather than local or personal. What gives?"
Well, I have little hope of democratic-socialism ever being imposed from the top down. Nor should it. Democratic-socialism should be built from the bottom up. We need to work democratic-socialist principles into the social fabric of our local communities and spread the good news from there.
Very, very few progressives know anything about democratic-socialist principles; we've been immersed in corporatist culture all our lives. We know what we're against, but we struggle to imagine the alternative and how to implement it. This series presents the alternative; you can find it in the Resilience Group's essay queue. Part 4 starts below.

Would you like to find ways to make your local community more resilient, more viable, more self-sufficient? Democratic-Socialism emphasizes appropriate technology to develop local communities, especially in rural areas. We'll look briefly at E.F. Schumacher's chapter on Appropriate Technology in Small Is Beautiful. Then we'll look at the example of a small town in Bavaria, called Wilpoldsried, which macgyvered its way out of where corporatist "development" had left it for dead and into a profitable future using Renewable Energies, the very best appropriate technology for small communities. More below.