By Chandran Nair, Open Democracy
To face the complexities of the 21st century, we must be open to discussing how core elements of modern capitalism were founded upon and created to uphold white Western economic privilege, and still do.
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
Our wants will never be satisfied in a capitalist economy, and the demand for work will never cease. They are both prerequisites for and results of the expansion of capital.
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
At the heart of both the environmental crisis and the obesity crisis is the capitalist market economy. It is the definition of capitalism that capital is multiplied.
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
The social order that capital’s apologists defend as inevitable and eternal is “the product of many economic revolutions, of the extinction of a whole series of older formations of social production.” Acceptance of the wages-system as a natural way to live and work did not happen easily.
By Stan Cox, Resilience.org
Prof. Chomsky has long argued that the roots of the climate emergency, and of our failure to deal with it, reach deep into the capitalist economic system.
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
Between the decline of feudalism and the rise of industrial capitalism, rural society was transformed by the complex of processes that are collectively known as enclosure.
By Aaron White, Open Democracy
Paying compensation to the descendants of slaves would not just right a historic wrong, it would transform the US economy for the better
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
But for the merchants who were the primary promoters, financiers and often warriors on the English side, it was an economic war — if they had read von Clausewitz, they might have said that their war was business conducted by other means.
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
Why wait for collapse? Repurposing growth capital now could help unwind the doomsday machine sooner rather than later.
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
An important factor in the rise of the Dutch merchant-industrialist class, scarcely mentioned in many accounts, was the absolute dominance of the Dutch fishing industry in the North Sea.
By Lisi Krall, Resilience.org
We should face reality: The other-than-human-world now has become almost entirely eclipsed by an unassailable “superorganism”—us, the human species—that continues to expand in evermore destructive fashion.
By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog
To one sort of capitalist, the insecurity and chaos that Brexit will bring is horrifying. To the other, it is highly profitable