Decolonizing the Empire of Cotton
In his new book Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven Beckert reinterprets the history of global capitalism through the lens of cotton, the commodity at the center of the Industrial Revolution.
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From the State Bank of Lake Park to a Critique of Capitalism
Jim Koplin, who developed the most comprehensive and consistent radical left/feminist/anti-racist/ecological politics of anyone I have ever known, talked with great affection about his time as a bank teller.
Exposing the False Prophets of Social Transformation
A growing group of elite storytellers present radical solutions to global problems, but their ideas actually inhibit real change and strengthen the status quo.
Learning Beyond Growth: Deschooling as a Path to Social-Ecological Transformation
Given that the overall objective of this economic system is not the fulfilment of needs or the promotion of individual flourishing but the endless accumulation of capital, a school system that feeds this machine can neither be centred on children’s learning needs, nor on the development of their personalities.
Is another way possible? July 17
(Round-up) Urban gardening in Greece – a new form of protest / Solidarity economy takes root in Greece / Paul Mason: The end of capitalism has begun / John Holloway: Cracking capitalism
We Need New Economics for a New Era of History
We are entering a new era in which the current way we run our economy won’t work.
Taxes and Corruption
It seems that the rumbling story about HSBC’s Swiss branch has achieved what political pollsters know as “cut through” – meaning that it’s of interest to voters as well as to those reporters who are sentenced to watch Prime Minister’s Questions each week.
The Day When Change Will Come
This is the vicious circle of capitalism, which is speeding up the destruction of the commons, driven by a world economy based on consumption and growth.
Climate: The Crisis and the Movement
The attraction of profit in the short-term overwhelms longer-term considerations, even for the most “enlightened” of businesspeople.
How Liberal Democracy Promotes Inequality
…Rates of global inequality are simply unprecedented. And neoliberalism is to blame.
A brief history of contemporary “consumerism” and anti-consumerism
History books usually study social movements of the second half of the nineteenth century from the point of view of the split between anarchists and Marxists.
Naomi Klein in conversation about This Changes Everything
A conversation with Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything, and Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive.
