The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
After all, the best hope of successfully navigating the crises of 2021 and beyond must involve King’s dream of building a multi-racial fusion movement to reconstruct society from the bottom up.
Economy featured
A Christmas Carol and the Rise of the Debt Society in the 21st Century
Dickens’ story embodies the nature of contemporary economic problems which we face, in terms of interest, debt traps and the meaning of the financial economy for both the haves and the have-nots.
Growth without economic growth
Economic growth is closely linked to increases in production, consumption and resource use and has detrimental effects on the natural environment and human health.
Freeing space: building worlds outside of state and capital
In the countryside, one lives on the means of production, making food and energy sovereignty that much easier to achieve.
A new landscape for skill-sharing emerges from pandemic aftermath
The pandemic has created many challenges for skills exchanges and other sharing initiatives that rely on person-to-person contact.
Racism in finance has sparked a grassroots response. Meet the Boston Ujima Project.
Economic racism is a real issue that denies people the opportunity to support themselves and their families, start businesses, or build financial legacies — such as homeownership — that pass from one generation to the next.
How and why I stopped buying new laptops
Not buying new laptops saves a lot of money, but also a lot of resources and environmental destruction.
How capitalism started, and why it still matters
In fact, capitalism isn’t particularly about markets or selling things. This needs stressing over and over, because powerful narratives to the contrary repeatedly fool us into supposing otherwise.
Musings on a soufflé dish or why capitalism has no space for love
That is why there is no room for love in capitalism. You cannot love a thing and at the same time be indifferent to its demise.
Solidarity Forever: Initiatives in the Global South as a model of the post-COVID-19 solidarity economy
“Unlike identity, solidarity is not something you have, it is something you do – a set of actions taken toward a common goal…[It] is the practice of helping people realize that they – that is to say, we – are all in this together.”
20 Reasons to Prefer Degrowth to the Green New Deal (as a political option to address the collapse of civilization)
Degrowth carries within its own name an unmistakable message about its content (stop growing) that gets to the heart of our civilizational problem: the obsession with perpetual growth.
A Pathway to Meaningful Work for Former Inmates
The Compost Cooperative is a worker-owned food scraps pickup service that empowers those who have been incarcerated by providing fulfilling work that allows for agency and economic independence.
