Riccardo Petrella offers some stark conclusions in this interview concerning education and globalism. "Education’s having become a commodity leads to a system of competition comparable to the economic system. Access to education becomes a promise to be successful within this competition. But, being an object of the market, education - and thus knowledge - is being privatised. It can be privately owned, which logically means that the owner can dispose of this resource as is seen fit. Knowledge and education are no common goods anymore." Yet, "The problem is that the promises of technology such as open markets, open content, access for all, are totally misleading. It is simply not true for the majority of the people." This article doesn't reveal his own approach, but his discussion on water is illuminating. "If we only fight for our own good, for corporatist interests, or by pure will to conquer and dominate, we risk losing everything. But if we fight for water, that is for the right to life, and for a commonweal of humanity, sooner or later we will win."
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