The Café That’s Upending Capitalism
Inside this brick storefront, something much more radical is brewing: a business model that could upend the traditional capitalistic business structure.
alternatives to capitalism
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 84 Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Before our season break, enjoy this casual chat between Douglas and Vicki.
Cuba prepares for disaster
The book Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management (2021) traced the highly successful source of the island nation’s efforts to the way it put human welfare above property.
Philosophy for the End of Growth
The end of growth and the ensuing long decline, which is already well underway in overdeveloped societies, will punch an enormous hole in the collective consciousness of the West.
Path to Extinction or Path to a Livable Future?: Review
It is well past the time to face hard decisions of how to reduce obscene levels of corporate production instead of fiddling with perpetual energy fantasies while the planet burns.
Regarding Mutualism, Cooperativism, and Other (Interstitially) Anti-Capitalist Alternatives
If future historians wish to find some silver lining in COVID-19, the rise in mutualism in response to the shut-downs and dislocations it made necessary may be a good candidate.
Resisting the everyday violence of colonial extractivism
In the face of environmental collapse, deepening inequalities and capitalism in crisis, resisting violence effectively requires rethinking its meanings and challenging its hegemonic constructions.
If It’s Profitable, Is It Really Sustainable?
That an economic activity has to be profitable is considered a truism, something taken for granted and not reflected upon. But what if the opposite is the case?
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.
Replacing rentier capitalism is one of the defining challenges of our age
In today’s somewhat bleak political landscape, we need to get serious about building strong counterweights to the power of extractive rentier capital.
Einstein’s Take on Capitalism, Socialism, and a New Kind of Business
A glimpse at the headlines surrounding the upcoming presidential election in the U.S. reveals how we are still largely governed by the old dichotomy of business vs. society.
Worker Self-Directed Enterprises: The Cure for Capitalism
While an entire chapter of Understanding Socialism is devoted to defining the word, right at the outset Wolff provides one of the broadest definitions of the term socialism I’ve heard. Socialism is a yearning — a yearning for something better than the status quo, better than capitalism.