Make Capitalism History: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society

This book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy, and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left's need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce real social and ecological change, and the need to look beyond traditional ideas of reform and revolution.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 20 December 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This open-access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modeling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy, and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left's need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce real social and ecological change, and the need to look beyond traditional ideas of reform and revolution. The book discusses how a socio-economic organization beyond money, wage labor, patriarchal division of work, and centralized state planning may look like. It develops an approach to societal transformation based on seed forms of commons practices and social movements. This book will be relevant to activists, students, and researchers interested in fundamental social change, political economy, and feminist and Marxist economics.

This open-access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modeling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy, and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left's need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce real social and ecological change, and the need to look beyond traditional ideas of reform and revolution. The book discusses how a socio-economic organization beyond money, wage labor, patriarchal division of work, and centralized state planning may look like. It develops an approach to societal transformation based on seed forms of commons practices and social movements. This book will be relevant to activists, students, and researchers interested in fundamental social change, political economy, and feminist and Marxist economics.

Weight: 332g
Dimension: 147 x 211 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031146473
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023