Capitalism, The State And War: Review
There are many parallels between the period of the two world wars and the current period, Alexander Nievas excellent account of this prior period provides any insights useful to the present.
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Undoing the Ideology of Growth
Degrowth aims at undoing growth.
Compost Capitalism
‘The pain we feel is capitalism dying.’ The words left an impression on me I think because they describe that strange, existential ache that we probably have all felt at some time or another, when contemplating how we should live our lives in a world that seems so tragically off track.
“The Divide” Shows Inequality on the Big Screen
Inequality represents simultaneously a cornerstone and a weak link in today’s capitalism.
Epiconomics 102 : The Sunlight Economy
The adoption of The Paris Agreement by 195 countries on December 12, 2015 marks the end of the era of fossil fuels.
Does a Fear of Death Lie at the Heart of Capitalism?
To fundamentally transform capitalism we must transform the existential fear that feeds it.
Epiconomics 101: Our Fiscal Genome
There is no reason why the inane policies of economic astrologers could not be quickly reversed by protein protagonists with simple but compelling histological reforms, such as basing the future on a bioeconomy that sequesters carbon and runs on sunlight.
Exit from the Megamachine
Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes.
Going Beyond the “Ecological Turn”
Talk about the Anthropocene often has a tendency to rely on apolitical and colonialist assumptions. But the turn to ecology in the humanities will require acknowledging—and, more importantly, supporting—those peoples who have never turned their back on ‘ecology’ in the first place.
The Coddling of the Capitalist, White-Supremacist, Patriarchal American Mind
To avoid being conned, politically and intellectually, it’s important to examine how a debate is framed and what ideology is advanced by that framing.
When is Capitalism not Capitalism?
As used by right-wing apologists for “free market capitalism” (an oxymoron if ever there was one), capitalism is the source of everything good in the world — but also something that never existed.
Alternatives to Capitalism: Derek Wall’s Economics After Capitalism (2015)
As long as capitalism has existed, in whichever form, there have been a great many voices of dissent, movements and thinkers crying out and struggling against what they have seen as an unjust, exploitative and destructive system.
