These struggles are full of passion, and need to be better integrated. Their common agenda must be firmly placed on a non-violent and spiritual path. This is the only way they can overcome the violence and destructiveness of the dominant world order. It is abundantly clear that the material benefits of modernisation and Westernisation are unfairly distributed to the people of the planet. Industrial capitalism has been built upon the violence of conquest, genocide, slavery, debt and bondage.
Extermination continues today, especially that of indigenous and ethnic people.
Inequality and exploitation lead to tension and conflict. Although many conflicts are expressed in ethnic terms, the underlying issues are often class based and rooted in the social structures of the global economic system. As social disparities and resistance increase, people have to be managed more and more through violent repression. Thus we have a situation where the global economy is predominantly a military economy and the world's leading nations are producing the weapons - perpetuating the situation. To counteract these global forces, we need to walk a different path from the one offered by capitalism.