Reclaiming Humanity: Lessons from Prof John McMurtry’s Vision of a Life-Centric World | ChatGPT4o

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The Rights of the “Human” over the “Non-Human”: The Undeclared World War of Human Rights versus Corporate Rights.
Life Value, The Common Life Interest of Legitimate Rights and Social Justice
Human Life: Beyond Money, Ideology and Productive Forces
The Universal Human Life Necessities: The Life Ground of Economics and Human Rights Defined
HUMAN VOCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: Contributing to Society, Realizing Oneself as a Human Being
Corporate Globalization versus The Civil Commons by which People’s Lives are Sustained
Why Contemporary Justice Theory Fails: The Missing Common Interest of Human Rights and Reason
Beyond Equivocal Equality and Masking Myths: Grounding Justice in What We All Need to Live as Human Beings
Challenging the Ruling Global Corporate Conglomerates. Regaining the Real Economy
“Social State” versus “Corporate State”: FROM EUROPEAN FASCISM TO “GLOBAL MONEY-SEQUENCE ABSOLUTISM”
TOWARDS GLOBAL DISORDER: How the Corporate Rights System Straddles the World
HUMANITY’S EVOLUTION AND THE GREAT REVERSAL: An Anatomy of the Corporate Right Counter-Revolution
History’s Long War for Liberation: Reclaiming the Life Rights which have been Won
Essay: Key Takeaways from John McMurtry’s Essays on the Corporate Rights System and the Evolution of Human Society
- The Corporate Rights System and Its Global Domination
- The Great Reversal: From Social Progress to Corporate Absolutism
- The Life-Value Alternative
- Reclaiming the Real Economy
- Lessons from Historical Struggles
- The Role of International Law and Institutions
- Conclusion: A Call to Action
Article Outline: Lessons Learned from John McMurtry’s Essays
- Introduction
- I. Understanding the Corporate Rights System
  - A. Definition and Characteristics
  - B. The Role of Corporate Rights in Global Governance
- II. The Erosion of Human Rights and Social Justice
  - A. Contrast Between Corporate and Human Rights
  - B. The Great Reversal
- III. The Role of Civil Commons in Advancing Human Rights
  - A. Definition and Importance of Civil Commons
  - B. Threats to Civil Commons
- IV. The Need for Life-Value Understanding
  - A. Principles of Life-Value Ontology
  - B. Practical Steps for Reclaiming Life Rights
- V. Case Studies and Examples
  - A. Positive Examples of Life-Value Integration
  - B. Negative Examples and Warnings
- VI. Conclusion
  - A. Summary of Key Lessons
  - B. Call to Action

Corporate Child Abuse: The Unseen Global Epidemic | Prof John McMurtry (2013)

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul”, Nelson Mandela says, “than the way in which it treats its children”.

Who would disagree?

Yet today children may be assaulted, diseased, or killed by pervasive corporate drugs, junk-foods and beverages, perverted by mindless violence in multiple modes, deployed as dead-end labour with no benefits, and then dumped into a corporate future of debt enslavement and meaningless work. How could this increasing systematic abuse be publicly licensed at every level? What kind of society could turn a blind eye to its dominant institutions laying waste the lives of the young and humanity’s future itself?

The abuse is built into the system. All rights of child care-givers themselves – from parent workers to social life support systems – are written out of corporate ‘trade’ treaties which override legislatures to guarantee “investor profits” as their sole ruling goal. Children are at the bottom, and most dispossessed by the life-blind global system. The excuse of “more competitive conditions” means, in fact, a race to the bottom of wages and benefits for families, social security, debt-free higher education, and protections against toxic environments to which the young are most vulnerable. At the same time, escalating sales of junk foods, malnutrition, and cultural debasement propel the sole growth achieved – ever more money demand at the top.

BE STILL AND KNOW LIFE-VALUE ONTO-AXIOLOGY – A collection of essays by Prof. John McMurtry | globalresearch.ca

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I. THE RIGHTS OF THE “HUMAN” OVER THE “NON-HUMAN”: THE UNDECLARED WORLD WAR OF HUMAN RIGHTS VERSUS CORPORATE RIGHTS
- Right to Life: From Right-Wing Slogan to Life-Grounded Comprehension
- Intrinsic Life Worth and Humanity’s Universal Being
- Projecting Personhood onto the Non-Human to Deprive the Human
- The Life-Value Onto-Ethic in Contrast
II. FINDING THE LOST LIFE-VALUE GROUND AND MEASURE: THE COMMON LIFE INTEREST OF LEGITIMATE RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
- Capabilities: Regrounding Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum in Life Need and Value
- Individual Differences and the Life-Value Criterion and Measure of Legitimate Rights
- Thinking Past the Life-Blind Paradigms
- The Universal Human Life Necessities
- Universal Life Needs the Basis of All Legitimate Rights
III. GROWING THE LIFE GOODS BASE: BEYOND MONEY, IDEOLOGY AND PRODUCTIVE FORCES
- Why Marx Does not Solve the Problem
- Predictable Downfall of Human and Planetary Life Until Life-Value Turn
- From Moral and Legal Philosophy to Marxian Revolution: The Missing Life-Ground
- The Modern Blind Eye: No Life-Value Standard to Steer Productive Development
- The First Requirement of Social Justice: Re-Grounding in Universal Human Life Goods
- Recognising the Human Vocation Above All
- Right of Access to Universal Life Goods: The Missing Argument
IV. THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN LIFE NECESSITIES: THE LIFE GROUND OF ECONOMICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFINED
- Blocking Out Life Necessity: The Compulsion of High Theory
- The Universal Life Needs and Goods: Explaining the Base of All Rights and Obligations
- Beyond the Invisible Hand: Naming Humanity’s Universal Life Necessities and Goods
- How to Test the Universal Life Goods and Necessities for Validity
- Sufficiency and Insufficiency of Provision Recognised by Life Capacity Margins
- Thinking Through “From Each According to Ability, To Each According to Needs”
V. RECOVERING THE BASES OF OUR LIVES FROM SILENCE AND OCCUPATION: THE HUMAN VOCATION, THE CIVIL COMMONS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
- Being Human: Why We Must Work for Our Own Life Good and Others’ at the Same Time
- The Civil Commons: Real Economic Base and Social Correlative of the Human Vocation
- The Corporate-Rich War on Civil Commons to Expropriate and Degrade Them for Profit
- From Commons-Blind Theory on Both Sides of Class Division to Life-Goods Economy and Justice.
- Regaining the Lost Bearings of Civil Commons as First Premise of Human Evolution
- From Corporate State versus Social State to Life-Coherent Rationality
VI. EVOLVED CIVIL COMMONS VERSUS CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION: A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ACROSS UNIVERSAL LIFE GOODS
- Re-Setting to the Common Life-Ground of Our Existence
- Economic Advance and Social Justice Both Decided by Universal Provision of Life Goods
- Atmospheric Goods
- Bodily Goods
- Home and Habitat Goods
- Environmental Integrity
- Life-Protective Goods of Security and Healthcare
- Cultural Life Goods
- The Good of Human Vocation
VII: WHY CONTEMPORARY JUSTICE THEORY FAILS: THE MISSING COMMON INTEREST OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND REASON
- Abstracting Away Everything that Ultimately Matters: Mapping High Theory’s Correspondence to the Life-Blind Ruling System
- G.A. Cohen’s Egalitarian Rescue Remains Within the Ruling Alibi as First Premise
- Economic Science and Pareto Optimum/Efficiency Unmasked in Principle
- Rawlsian Justice as Trickle-Down Myth in Formal Costume
VIII. BEYOND EQUIVOCAL EQUALITY AND MASKING MYTHS: GROUNDING JUSTICE IN WHAT WE ALL NEED TO LIVE AS HUMAN
- From Rational Plan of Life to Human Vocation: The Ultimate Moral Regrounding
- Life-Ground Ethics Rejects a Career Plan as a Universal Good of Justice or Morality
- Linking Life Right and Obligation at System-Wide and Historical Levels
- The Life-Coherence Principle, Civil Commons, and the Human Vocation
IX. REGAINING THE REAL ECONOMY FROM THE CANCER SYSTEM: THE CHOICE SPACE FOR HUMANITY’S EVOLUTION OR DESTRUCTION
- Evolution of Humanity by Rules of Life-Enabling Economy and Justice
- Progressive or Regressive Meta Pattern of History?
- The Corporate-State War Against Human Evolution
- Recovering the Real Economy in Principle and Fact
X. THE SOCIAL STATE VERSUS THE CORPORATE STATE: FROM EUROPEAN FASCISM TO GLOBAL MONEY-SEQUENCE ABSOLUTISM
- Social State Evolution versus Corporate State Growth: The Battle Lines Defined
- From the Depression, Anti-Fascist War and Decolonisation to the Corporate Occupation
- The Morality of Corporate Rights: No Rights Except for Private Money Sequences
- Social Justice and Economic Integrity: The Life Code in Social Defence
XI. THE LIFE-AND-DEATH WAR OF RIGHTS SYSTEMS DEFINED
- Defining the Global Corporate Mechanism in Formal Terms
- The Age-Old Life Economy of the Civil Commons versus the Corporate-Rights System
- Holding and Advancing the Life-Ground of Resistance: Clarifying the Civil Commons of Economic and Human Rights Around and Under Us
- Beyond Amnesiac Despair: The Life Economy and Human Rights Base Already Won
- The Real Private Sector is the Opposite of Global Corporate For Profit
XII. HUMANITY’S EVOLUTION AND THE GREAT REVERSAL: AN ANATOMY OF THE CORPORATE RIGHT COUNTER-REVOLUTION
- Getting Our Historical Bearings in the Turning-Point Time
- The Great Reversal
- The Historic Choice Today
XIII. HISTORY’S LONG WAR FOR LIBERATION: RECLAIMING THE LIFE RIGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN WON
- The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Societies’ Life Rights Against Corporate Fascism Across Borders
- Resolving Confusions of Meaning to See the Historical Pattern Across Generational Time
- Reclaiming and Moving Beyond the Human Life Rights That Have Already Been Won.
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