Socialism Capitalism And Alternatives

Author : Peter J. S. Duncan,Elisabeth Schimpfössl
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787353831

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Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives by Peter J. S. Duncan,Elisabeth Schimpfössl Pdf

In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. Two years later the Soviet Union disintegrated. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union discredited the idea of socialism for generations to come. It was seen as representing the final and irreversible victory of capitalism. This triumphal dominance was barely challenged until the 2008 financial crisis threw the Western world into a state of turmoil. Through analysis of post-socialist Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as of the United Kingdom, China and the United States, Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives confronts the difficulty we face in articulating alternatives to capitalism, socialism and threatening populist regimes. Beginning with accounts of the impact of capitalism on countries left behind by the planned economies, the volume moves on to consider how China has become a beacon of dynamic economic growth, aggressively expanding its global influence. The final section of the volume poses alternatives to the ideological dominance of neoliberalism in the West. Since the 2008 financial crisis, demands for social change have erupted across the world. Exposing the failure of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom and examining recent social movements in Europe and the United States, the closing chapters identify how elements of past ideas are re-emerging, among them Keynesianism and radical socialism. As those chapters indicate, these ideas might well have potential to mobilise support and challenge the dominance of neoliberalism.

Author : Peter J. S. Duncan,Elisabeth Schimpfössl
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787353831

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Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives by Peter J. S. Duncan,Elisabeth Schimpfössl Pdf

In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. Two years later the Soviet Union disintegrated. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union discredited the idea of socialism for generations to come. It was seen as representing the final and irreversible victory of capitalism. This triumphal dominance was barely challenged until the 2008 financial crisis threw the Western world into a state of turmoil. Through analysis of post-socialist Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as of the United Kingdom, China and the United States, Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives confronts the difficulty we face in articulating alternatives to capitalism, socialism and threatening populist regimes. Beginning with accounts of the impact of capitalism on countries left behind by the planned economies, the volume moves on to consider how China has become a beacon of dynamic economic growth, aggressively expanding its global influence. The final section of the volume poses alternatives to the ideological dominance of neoliberalism in the West. Since the 2008 financial crisis, demands for social change have erupted across the world. Exposing the failure of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom and examining recent social movements in Europe and the United States, the closing chapters identify how elements of past ideas are re-emerging, among them Keynesianism and radical socialism. As those chapters indicate, these ideas might well have potential to mobilise support and challenge the dominance of neoliberalism.

Author : Peter J. S. Duncan,Elisabeth Schimpfössl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Ideology
ISBN : 1787353869

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Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives by Peter J. S. Duncan,Elisabeth Schimpfössl Pdf

Author : Richard Swift
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771131575

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SOS by Richard Swift Pdf

Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers’ greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. People are crying out for an alternative but are continually told that one does not exist. Richard Swift proves this to be wrong with style and assurance. With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offer—including socialism, social democracy, anarchism, ecology and degrowth. Combining the practical with the visionary, he shows that finding alternatives to capitalism is no longer an academic issue for the left—it is an urgent planetary necessity.

Author : Tatah Mentan
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956727346

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Socialism: The Only Practical Alternative to Contemporary Capitalism by Tatah Mentan Pdf

Since the end of World War II, global capitalism, spearheaded by US financial interests and backed by the most lethal military force that has ever been assembled, has consolidated its power over the world economy. In the past decades, especially, transnational corporations have tightened their control over national governments and international institutions. The imposition of free trade policies and the increasing privatization of social services have facilitated the accumulation of fabulous wealth for the owners of capital at the expense of working people and the environment worldwide. Contemporary capitalism now dominates every major sector of the world economy. The social and environmental costs of contemporary capitalism are prohibitive. The global megatrends of rising inequality and absolute poverty, political instability, and global climate changeall compounded and accelerated by this predatory mode of productionare adversely affecting the lives and threatening the future of every inhabitant of nations and the entire world. In view of these megatrends and the current global economic crisis, the conclusion that contemporary capitalism does not serve the interests of the vast majority of the people on the planet and is both economically and environmentally unsustainable, is self-evident. History offers harsh lessons. The political violence of the 20th century, which resulted in an estimated 200 million deaths and untold economic and environmental destruction, cautions us to work for socialism in the 21st century with every means at our disposal except violence. Facing the awful power and willingness of capitalism to coerce and corrupt, we must find ways to make soft power prevail. Clearly, a revolution is in orderit is time to place the socialist alternative on the national and world agenda.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UOM:39015055033099

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Selected Articles on Capitalism and Its Alternatives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robin Hahnel,Erik Olin Wright
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784785062

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Alternatives to Capitalism by Robin Hahnel,Erik Olin Wright Pdf

What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power—it is not difficult to list capitalism’s myriad injustices. But is there a preferable and workable alternative? Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy presents a debate between two such possibilities: Robin Hahnel’s “participatory economics” and Erik Olin Wright’s “real utopian” socialism. It is a detailed and rewarding discussion that illuminates a range of issues and dilemmas of crucial importance to any serious effort to build a better world.

Author : Jon Elster,Karl O. Moene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052137815X

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Alternatives to Capitalism by Jon Elster,Karl O. Moene Pdf

A theoretical analysis and assessment of proposed alternatives to present-day capitalism.

Author : Yanis Varoufakis
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612199566

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Another Now by Yanis Varoufakis Pdf

What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer in a work of speculative fiction that recalls William Morris and William Gibson The year: 2035. At a funeral for Iris, a revolutionary leftist feminist, Yango is approached by Costa, Iris’s closest comrade, who urges him to carry out Iris’s last wish: plough into her secret diaries to tell their story. “But”, Costa insists “leave out anything that might help Big Tech replicate my technologies!” That night Yango delves into Iris’s diaries. In them he discovers a chronicle of how Costa’s revolutionary technologies had unveiled an actually existing, fully democratized, postcapitalist society. Suddenly he understands Costa’s obsession with the hackers trying to steal his secrets. So begins Yanis Varoufakis’s extraordinary novelistic thought-experiment, where the world-famous economist offers an invigorating and deeply moving vision of an alternative reality. Another Now tells the story of Costa, a brilliant but deeply disillusioned, computer engineer, who creates a revolutionary technology that will allow the user a “glimpse of a life beyond their dreams” but will not enslave them. But an accident during one of its trial runs unveils a cosmic wormhole where Costa meets his DNA double, who is living in a 2025 very different than the one Costa is living in. In this parallel 2025 a global hi-tech uprising, begun in the wake of the collapse of 2008, has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratized. Banks have been eliminated, as well as predatory, data-mining digital monopolies; the gig economy is no more; and the young are free to experiment with different careers and to study ”non-lucrative topics, from Sumerian pottery to astrophysics.” Intoxicated, Costa travels to England to tell Iris, his old comrade, and her neighbor, Eva, a recovering banker turned neoliberal economics professor, of the parallel universe he has discovered. Costa eventually leads them back to his workshop in America where Iris and Eva meet their own doubles, and confront hard truths about themselves and the daunting political challenge that "the Other Now" presents. But, as their obsession with the Other Now deepens, time begins to run out, as the wormhole begins to deteriorate and hackers begin to unleash new attacks on Costa’s technology. The trio have to make a choice: which 2025 do they want to live in? Varoufakis has been claiming for a while that we already live in postcapitalist times. That, since the 2008 crisis, capitalism has been morphing into technofeudalism. Another Now, a riveting work of speculative fiction, shows that there is a realistic, democratic alternative to the technofeudalpostcapitalist dystopia taking shape all around us. It also confronts us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?

Author : Chris Rogers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780327389

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Capitalism and Its Alternatives by Chris Rogers Pdf

The global economic crisis has catalysed debates about the merits of capitalism as a system for organizing production, distribution and exchange. Political elites have argued that capitalism is not fundamentally pernicious or crisis-prone and can be successfully reformed with the right set of policies. Conversely, many have argued that a wholesale change of attitude towards the status and creation of wealth in contemporary society is required if crises of this kind are to be prevented in the future. In Capitalism and Its Alternatives, Chris Rogers provides a critical introduction to theories of capitalism and to the forms of its crises in historical and contemporary contexts, as well as reflecting on the practice of anti-capitalism and the ways that economic and social relations are shaped, reshaped and resisted. Crucially, the book asks two key questions: What alternatives to capitalism exist? And by what processes and through what institutions might they be achieved?

Author : Andrés Solimano,Osvaldo Sunkel,Mario I. Blejer,Mario I. Bléjer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472105205

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Rebuilding Capitalism by Andrés Solimano,Osvaldo Sunkel,Mario I. Blejer,Mario I. Bléjer Pdf

The book considers the historical origins of the current wave of market-oriented reform, reviews existing controversies on the design of economic reforms, and offers alternative criteria to evaluate policy performance. In particular it focuses on issues of macroeconomic adjustment and stabilization, liberalization policies, reform of the state, and interactions between economic and political transformation during the course of systemic transformation.

Author : Erik Olin Wright
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788736077

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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright Pdf

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values—equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity—can provide both the basis for a critique of capitalism and help to guide us toward a socialist and democratic society. Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into this concise and tightly argued manifesto: analyzing the varieties of anticapitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the foundations for a society dedicated to human flourishing. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century is an urgent and powerful argument for socialism, and an unparalleled guide to help us get there. Another world is possible. Included is an afterword by the author’s close friend and collaborator Michael Burawoy.

Author : Kieran Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Communism
ISBN : 1786802015

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Marx by Kieran Allen Pdf

Author : Rudolf Bahro
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789606812

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The Alternative in Eastern Europe by Rudolf Bahro Pdf

The contemporary Marxist writer provides analyses of socialist theory, modern political struggle, and socialist societies in Eastern Europe.

Author : Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401578493

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A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by Hans-Hermann Hoppe Pdf