A POSTCAPITALIST PARADIGM: THE COMMON GOOD OF ...

globalization, the transnationalization promoted by the transnational corporations
and the agreements on free trade designed to support imperial
interests.
To crown our efforts, we must specify everything that challenges the
culture of world peace and the counter-culture of imperial warfare, which
has been loosed upon the whole planet. We must commit ourselves to
peace, which is the product of international social justice or we shall destroy
humanity.
By way of conclusion
My aim has been to describe some aspects of the positions and declarations
of the organized movement of workers, which converge with
the theses contained in Houtart’s valuable work. The importance of the
text should be stressed because of its pluralist approach and the basic
ideology of its theses.
In the various interventions that I have made in the World Social Forum,
as representative of the World Confederation of Labour, as well as of
the International Trade Union Confederation, particularly its International
Council, I said that while we did not share the declaration about the end
of history (as an expression of the triumph of capitalism over communism)
or the end of ideologies (as an expression of the ‘final’ triumph of
neo-liberal capitalism), we must nevertheless recognize the end of dogmatism.
No one, in social, political, economic and cultural terms, has the
absolute truth. We must be capable of constructing a new world society
based on the supremacy of work over capital, the centrality of the human
person, ecological and socially sustainable development and universal
social justice. We must also acknowledge the pluralism that exists between
the different strata of society that reject capitalism/neo-li b eralism
(the 99 per cent).
Defining as an objective the construction of a universal common good
and the proposal to promote a Universal Declaration of the Common
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