Republished by SocialActivism.gr of Athens.Edited by Ellen KalisperatiInfo from huffingtonpost.com

We are living in a historical era akin to the 18th century Enlightenment. That was when social philosophers threw out many former paradigms that had dominated human societies for millennia -- royalty, aristocracy and serfdom. In their place, they invented the new frameworks of human relationships, such as democracy and free market capitalism.