Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
by Richard Beck · 2 Sep 2024 · 715pp · 212,449 words
/politics/2024/06/24/public-trust-in-government-1958-2024/. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 58 Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World (London: Verso, 2022), 25. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 59 Chapter 12: They Do This All the Time Dick Cheney, In My Time: A Personal
How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism
by Eric Hobsbawm · 5 Sep 2011 · 621pp · 157,263 words
more mature economic studies Marx himself envisaged the possible development of an increasingly labourless economy, 113 How to Change the World at least in a post-capitalist era. 15 Even in the old industrial economies of capitalism, the percentage of people employed in manufacturing industry remained stable until the 1970s, except for
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necessarily have to mark a sharp shift away from private appropriation to social management on a global scale. It is extremely unlikely that such a ‘post-capitalist society’ would correspond to the traditional models of socialism, and still less to the ‘really existing’ socialisms of the Soviet era. What forms it might
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admirably with Marxian theory’ (Baran and Sweezy), 13 both also agreed that ‘it has not been more successful than liberalism in formulating a theory of post-capitalist society’ (Lichtheim) or ‘contributed significantly to our understanding of some of the major characteristics of the “affluent society”’ (Baran and Sweezy). For the best part
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the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with capitalist development’, and the proposition that the post-capitalist society will lead to the end of human alienation and the full development of all individuals’ human faculties. They belong to different forms of discourse
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore · 16 Oct 2017 · 335pp · 89,924 words
in Native Women’s Activism.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 7, no. 1: 127–61. Barkin, David, and Blanca Lemus. 2016. “Third World Alternatives for Building Post-capitalist Worlds.” Review of Radical Political Economics 48, no. 4: 569–76. Barnhill, David Landis. 2005. “Buddhism.” In The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, edited by
Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman · 1 Jun 2020 · 578pp · 131,346 words
. On one side are the people who believe the whole world is destined to become one big commune. These are the optimists – also known as post-capitalists, presumably because communism is still a dirty word.40 On the other side are the pessimists who foresee continued raids on the commons by Silicon
Alternatives to Capitalism
by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright · 167pp · 50,652 words
history, achieves a rare degree of depth and thoroughness. Important points of disagreement emerge. These concern, among other things, the level of detail to which post-capitalist visions should aspire, the future of markets, and whether a revolutionary strategy has a credible role to play in anti-capitalist politics. Readers will have
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economy—could exist in which markets have been completely replaced by participatory planning. While he acknowledges that the actual design of economic institutions in a post-capitalist participatory economy will evolve through experimentation and democratic deliberation, he nevertheless argues that the goal should be the complete elimination of markets, and his hypothesis
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, formulation of plans for specific projects, etc. Participatory planning of public goods—at the neighborhood level and beyond—will be a critical feature of a post-capitalist, democratic-egalitarian economy, especially because it is likely that the balance between private and public consumption will shift considerably in the public direction. Planning such
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disagreement. In particular we share a common critique of capitalism, a common understanding of the central values we would like to see realised in a post-capitalist society, and a common commitment to progressive reform within capitalism as a necessary part of the (possible) transformation beyond capitalism. Within this context of such
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of “new games” rooted in cooperative values and some of these in fact were reasonably enjoyable, at least to some people.5 Perhaps in a post-capitalist world with a participatory economy, people will abandon competitive sports just as Robin hopes that they will completely abandon markets. But it is also possible
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from justice in the name of efficiency (see my discussion below of the problem of innovation). 3Contrary to what some people argue, sustainability of a post-capitalist democratic-egalitarian economic system of the sort proposed by Robin would not require that it generate high rates of economic growth (unless, of course, it
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, could be “non-reformist.” Either it “heightens” some internal contradiction and thereby undermines the system, or it “prefigures” a solution that is part of a post-capitalist system. I think any who believes in non-reformist reforms for the first reason is chasing a myth. On the other hand, I think the
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin · 12 Jul 2021 · 314pp · 88,524 words
tend to be multiple. In terms of approaches, these can be alternatives building, opposition research, and in relation to capitalism, they can be ‘anti-capitalist,’ post-capitalist,’ and ‘despite capitalism.’ ”10 And there you have it. For many of the “environmental” intellectuals behind this amorphous yet widespread movement, the goal is to
What's Wrong With Economics: A Primer for the Perplexed
by Robert Skidelsky · 3 Mar 2020 · 290pp · 76,216 words
us ‘to live wisely and agreeably and well’.18 Capitalism was a passing phase, a view Keynes shared with Marx. Most economists cannot envisage a post-capitalist era, because they see scarcity as a permanent condition: the Robbins definition sets no limit to human wants. Scarcity continues to demand arithmetical – not moral
One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words
everyday urban life—a technological embodiment of environmentalism.60 The effort to integrate bicycling into the fabric of radical politics and an ecological vision of post-capitalist urbanism resonates with a wider anti-automobile sentiment blossoming throughout Europe in the late 1960s and early 1970s. in particular, French intellectuals like alain Touraine
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel · 12 Aug 2020 · 286pp · 87,168 words
Less ONECapitalism – A Creation Story TWORise of the Juggernaut THREEWill Technology Save Us? Part TwoLess is More FOURSecrets of the Good Life FIVEPathways to a Post-Capitalist World SIXEverything is Connected Acknowledgements Endnotes About the Author Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
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possibilities come into view. We can create an economy that is organised around human flourishing instead of around endless capital accumulation; in other words, a post-capitalist economy. An economy that’s fairer, more just, and more caring. These ideas have been percolating on different continents for the past few decades, like
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took hold, and what makes it tick. We will look at concrete, practical steps we can take to reverse ecological collapse and build an alternative, post-capitalist economy. And we will travel across continents, to cultures and communities that interact with the living world in ways that open up whole new horizons
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. If we want to release our society from the grip of the growth imperative, we have to be smarter than that. Five Pathways to a Post-Capitalist World We cannot save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed. Greta Thunberg Once we understand that we
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incomes unnecessary. The commons become an antidote to the growth imperative. A theory of radical abundance This brings us to the real heart of a post-capitalist economy. Ending planned obsolescence, capping resource use, shortening the working week, reducing inequality and expanding public goods – these are all essential steps to reducing energy
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has built a movement around the idea, and now it’s being picked up as another possible step towards a more ecological economy.54 A post-capitalist imaginary When people talk about ‘overthrowing’ or ‘abolishing’ capitalism, it can leave us with a real sense of unease about what will come afterwards. It
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the void? But when we focus on how to release our system from the growth imperative, we begin to get a sense of what a post-capitalist economy might look like. And it’s not scary at all. This is not the command-and-control fiasco of the Soviet Union, or some
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there are still difficult questions to which we don’t yet have all the answers. No one can give us a simple recipe for a post-capitalist economy; ultimately it has to be a collective project. All I’ve done here is offer a few possibilities that I hope will nourish the
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.64 In an age of ecological breakdown, we must break this barrier down. We must subject capitalism to scrutiny – to reason. The journey to a post-capitalist economy begins with the most basic act of democracy. Six Everything is Connected In the very earliest time When both people and animals lived on
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-systems science and biogeochemistry would not be surprising to peoples who have long regarded the Earth as a living being, or even as a mother. Post-capitalist ethics What does all of this mean for us? How should we live in the light of this science? Let’s go back to those
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high-income countries to scale down excess energy and material use; we need a rapid transition to renewables; and we need to shift to a post-capitalist economy that’s focused on human well-being and ecological stability rather than on perpetual growth. But we also need more than this – we need
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on global military expenditure is from the World Bank. 46 Mariana Mazzucato, ‘The entrepreneurial state,’ Soundings 49, 2011, pp. 131–142. Five: Pathways to a Post-Capitalist World 1 International Resource Panel, Global Resources Outlook (United Nations Environment Programme, 2019). 2 Bringezu, ‘Possible target corridor for sustainable use of global material resources
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason · 29 Jul 2015 · 378pp · 110,518 words
RIGHT QUESTIONS In 1993, the management guru Peter Drucker wrote: ‘That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society “post-capitalist”. It changes, and fundamentally, the structure of society. It creates new social dynamics. It creates new economic dynamics. It creates new politics.’7 At the
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. Drucker’s case rests on the assertion that the old factors of production – land, labour and capital – have become secondary to information. In his book Post-Capitalist Society, Drucker argued that certain norms essential to capitalism were being replaced. Writing before anybody had seen an internet browser, Drucker observed the information-rich
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/en/technologies/engineering_news/others/Sieber_Aero_Engine_Roadmap_en.pdf 6. Data on the Balance Sheet, SAS Institute/CEBR, June 2013 7. P. Drucker, Post-capitalist Society (Oxford, 1993), p. 40 8. Ibid., p. 175 9. Ibid., p. 193 10. Y. Peng, ‘Internet Use of Migrant Workers in the Pearl River
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