In each other we trust: coining alternatives to capitalism
Beyond God and state, it’s money that rules. Can we still imagine alternatives?
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Reviewing The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism
Starkman explains why journalists often aren’t alert watchdogs, but he can’t see why limiting the profession to the role of a barking dog is, quite literally, a dead-end.
David Harvey: the crisis of capitalism this time around
Crises are essential to the reproduction of capitalism.
‘Democratic Wealth’: clearing a path to the future
There has been no fundamental reshaping, anywhere, of the market machine, however loud its critics have become.
Food activism: Avoiding the destruction of the imagination
What are we to make of Monsanto’s sponsoring of organic school gardens? Of local food bike tours made possible by Pepsi?
P2P Perspectives: Alternative development
Africa, Latin America and Asia, they are supposed to be societies on a particular trajectory of history … they are all supposed to be trying to be in the future what Europe and North America are today. So, in that sense, technically there are no options open to them in the future.
More evidence that capitalism never solves its crises
As David Harvey has noted, and as the ongoing emerging market panic confirms, capitalism never solves its crises — it merely moves them around geographically.
‘Declaring victory wherever we can’
I’m fond of books that don’t claim to have The Answer but instead are useful guides in our search for answers.
Cooperative Movement Should Engage Government Cautiously
Current events illustrate the potential unintended consequences of subordinating market-based cooperative organizing into economic planning…
Learning from Captain Ahab – two stories of civilization
Chris Hedges and Greg Grandin both call on Melville’s Moby-Dick to bring us commentary on the crisis of our civilization.
Mondragón and the System Problem
As America moves more deeply into its growing systemic crisis, it is becoming increasingly important for activists and theorists to distinguish clearly between important projects and "institutional elements," on the one hand, and systemic change and systemic design, on the other.
Green Capitalism: Why it can’t work (Review)
Green Capitalism: Why it can’t work, by the noted Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro…speaks to two separate audiences, challenging greens to recognize that environmental destruction cannot be stopped so long as capitalism continues, and challenging Marxists to change their views and behavior, to take into account limits to growth.
