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.
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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.
Detroit: from disaster to salvation?
Detroit was the cradle of Fordist capitalism and the American dream. Then it became their grave. But now, amidst the ruins, something is moving. Is there an end to the city’s decline?
The Poverty of Capitalism: roundtable
It’s as if you have a terrible heart attack and surgery, you’ve just come out of intensive care and the doctor says there’s no need to change anything of your previous life, don’t exercise much and keep up your intake of fatty foods!
Can bytes save the future? The money value delusion
On behalf of us all, investors make the same mistake as King Midas did. Human behavioural ecology knows why this paradox exists. Would it help if everybody knew?
Is privatising nature a good thing?
This seems to be a pivotal moment in contemporary struggles over how nature is best valued, managed and allocated.
Cooperatives: A Historical and Cross Cultural Perspective
The cooperative movements represent large, diverse alternatives to the dominant private-ownership model and the cooperative ideal has resurfaced many times during the history of modern industrial development.
Deep thought – headlines
•’Sleepwalking to Extinction’: Capitalism and the Destruction of Life and Earth •The story of how greens became energy enemy number one •Collapsing Consciously
Land and Resource Scarcity: Capitalism, struggle and well-being in a world without fossil fuels
This is a book that seems to be created above all for people who are active in social movements, but who are also uneasy about the current global crisis.
Grow Heathrow: here to stay?
Our project was set up by Transition Heathrow…which aims to create a resilient, sustainable space in the community that can survive many generations, survive any shocks or attacks it might face.
How the new peer-to-peer economy can lead to the renaissance of the commons
The “peer to peer” and commons-oriented vision for a new type of civilization and economic system starts from an analysis of what is fundamentally wrong with the current economic system.
