Elites benefit while workers, small business, and local economies suffer. However, without the support of national governments, big government bureaucracies would collapse and corporations would go broke or dissolve under the pressure of competition. Workers, small businesses and local communities would see an explosion of opportunities that would allow women s businesses and cooperatives and businesses sensitive to women s needs to flourish. State-provided social security, welfare, medical care, education, child care, etc. are usually poor alternatives to what an efficient economy, compassionate voluntary organizations, and systematic voluntary redistribution of wealth can provide. The truth is, national governments use social welfare programs to excuse the larger wrongs done in the name of the nation state.
Nature is just another resource to be used in the male quest for wealth and power.
National governments promote and subsidize environmentally destructive projects, permit the careless exploitation of public land, sanction poisonous levels of pollution, and build and use environmentally destructive military weapons. A culture influenced by women s values would extend compassion to nature and create sustainable economic and conservative environmental attitudes and institutions. Women have worked to end the cruelties of patriarchy sexist language and behavior, discrimination, rape, woman battering, militarism and war. Now women must lead the struggle against the cruelest patriarchal institution the nation state. Once enough women grasp this idea and begin to act on it and enough men join us the real revolution toward freedom, peace and justice worldwide will have begun.