While the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the ‘logic’ of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions. We’ve passed the point where our biggest enemy is material scarcity. Our problems no longer revolve around insufficient production, but iniquitous distribution – and the fact that we’re fast running out of planet – and these are problems that capitalism cannot solve. Taking in a diverse range of contemporary and historical evidence – from the Putney Debates of 1647 to Modern Monetary Theory, from John Locke to Thomas Piketty, from the Rights of Man to the rise of identity politics How Capitalism Ends navigates a path through current affairs, history, economics and philosophy and sets the scene for the conversation we, as a civilization, urgently need to begin…
Author: Steve Paxton
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 11/25/2022
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.43w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781803410005
Language: English
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