After capitalism: 'We will return to the art of discourse'
Decrying the 'lies, lies and damn lies' fed to us by politicians and the media, the writer and broadcaster Darcus Howe imagines a new political vernacular accessible to all. Animation by Central Saint Martins students Alexandre Do and Tezo Kyungdon Lee, who have taken inspiration from Plato's cave allegory to form the narrative.
After capitalism: ''Beyond Capitalism"
Guardian columnist George Monbiot argues that a world after capitalism is not a communist state but an advanced form of social democracy where the distribution of wealth is more stringently regulated. Animation by Yann Ponns, Alban Connell, Moet Suzuki and Mohamed Ali.
Future Capitalism - Alternative Vision
'Transform money and credit into instruments that serve people'
Economics professor Costas Lapavitsas argues that a world after capitalism would see money and credit move from being instruments that reinforce inequality into tools for genuine public service. His argument is accompanied by animation from Central Saint Martins students Dimo Mezekliev and Aizhan Abdrakhmanova, using images from bank notes around the world.
More from The Guardian's excellent series on the topic: After capitalism: 'It is irrational to be obsessed with GDP'
Economist Jayati Ghosh has seven dreams for an ideal society, which would root out inequality but preserve cultural differences. She calls for less focus on GDP growth, and a repurposing of market forces to serve people rather than hold them back.
Marxism is an attempt to scientifically trace out the actual dynamics of global capitalism and the class struggle. Only through a lucid understanding of social processes, cleared of the fog of capitalist propaganda, can workers and the oppressed map out a strategy and tactics to defeat big business and transform society.
Genuine socialist theory is therefore a sort of “best practices” guide to winning short-term struggles, a transitional method of linking today’s movements to a broader global strategy to end capitalism, and a vision of a future society based on the experience of workers’ self-organization in struggle.
Slavoj Žižek: Don't Act. Just Think.
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.
Rebecca Walker: My Post-capitalist Utopia
Alternative Economic & Political Strategy: John Foster
What kind of strategy would unite the maximum forces for progress, reforms and socialist revolution at each stage of the revolutionary process?
Its starting point must be to identify the objective basis for building a broad alliance across a wide range of movements that would open the road to socialism. This can only be opposition to the policies of state-monopoly capitalism in Britain. In seeking to challenge and defeat British state-monopoly capitalism, the AEPS must engage with the class struggle on the economic, political and ideological fronts. It must also propose the kind of policies that can promote the interests of the working class and the mass of the peoples of Britain, making inroads into the wealth and power of the capitalist class. Such a left-wing programme (LWP) would therefore need to embrace important economic, environmental, social, cultural, financial, democratic and foreign policy questions.
The AEPS would also have to identify the forces which, if brought together, would constitute the most powerful alliance to fight for the LWP against state-monopoly capitalism. This in turn raises the question of how such a popular, democratic anti-monopoly alliance would seek political power, including the role of elections and governments.
Finally, the AEPS must be able to outline the most likely stages through which the revolutionary process will have to go in the struggle for political power and socialism.
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