Tag: Human rights

Rationing to Life Necessities: A Guide to McMurtry’s Life-Value Compass | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

This document introduces John McMurtry’s Primary Axiom of Life Value and its practical application through the principle of rationing to life necessities. It explains why today’s global system prioritizes profit over survival, creating crises in health, education, economy, governance, and ecology. Drawing on McMurtry’s metaphor of the “cancer stage of capitalism,” the work contrasts the destructive logic of money-sequence growth with the sustaining logic of life-sequence value. For a general audience, the text illustrates these concepts with everyday examples — bottled water versus clean water systems, luxury housing versus homelessness, fossil fuel growth versus climate stability. It argues that rationing to life necessities is not austerity but liberation: the foundation of real freedom, justice, and sustainable development. The document concludes with a call for life-coherent governance, science, and meaning, positioning humanity at a civilizational choice-space between collapse and renewal.

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The Problem Isn’t You — It’s the System: An LVOA Reflection on Personal Blame and Systemic Injustice | ChatGPT4o

This article expands upon Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov’s viral essay, “The Problem Isn’t You, It’s the System,” by critically engaging it through the philosophical framework of Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA). It examines the pervasive neoliberal myth of personal failure and reveals how structural injustices — masked as individual shortcomings — function as ideological tools to prevent collective awakening and systemic reform. By exposing the life-incoherence at the core of modern economic systems, the article reorients readers toward collective solidarity, relational healing, and participatory redesign. It concludes with targeted calls to action for activists, educators, and policymakers seeking to co-create life-enabling alternatives.

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

Table of Contents

  • 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

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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Reproduced from: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CESCR.aspx International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966 entry into force 3 January 1976, in accordance with article 27 Preamble The States Parties to the present Covenant, Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed… Read More

Human Rights versus Corporate Rights: Life Value, the Civil Commons and Social Justice by JOHN MCMURTRY

ABSTRACT This analysis maps the deepening global crisis and the principles of its resolution by life-value analysis and method. Received theories of economics and justice and modern rights doctrines are shown to have no ground in life value and to be incapable of recognizing universal life goods and the rising threats to them. In response to this system failure at theoretical and operational levels, the unifying nature and measure of life value are defined to provide the long-missing basis for understanding the common interest, human rights and social justice—that is, the universal life necessities of humanity across cultures and the evolving civil commons infrastructures to ensure them. In contrast, the treaty-imposed corporate rights system miscalled “globalization” is structured to predate life means and support systems at all levels with no accountability beyond itself. Only the logic of life value, human rights and life-protective law, it is concluded, can comprehend or govern this inherently life-blind and cumulatively eco-genocidal regime.

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Life Value and Social Justice

Introduction

Since its publication in 1971, John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice has defined the terrain of political philosophical debate concerning the principles, scope, and material implications of social justice. Social justice for Rawls concerns the principles that govern the operation of major social institutions. Major social institutions structure the lives of citizens by regulating access to the resources and opportunities that the formulation and realization of human projects require. Rawls’ theory of social justice regards major institutions as just when they distribute what he calls “primary goods” in a manner that he regards as egalitarian. Hence, the subsequent social justice debate has been shaped by and large as a debate about the meaning and implications of egalitarianism. While on the surface a debate about egalitarianism as a distributional principle seems to uncover the core problem of social justice — how much of what everyone should get as a matter of right — the entire history of the debate has been conducted in abstraction from what matters most to people’s lives. It is as a corrective to such abstractions that the life-value approach to social justice has been developed…

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