Pathways to a Post-Capitalist World

Pathways to a Post-Capitalist World: Drawing of a man behind a wall hiding a beautiful and sunny landscape.

Organized around exchange-value, not use-value, the capitalist system is over-productive and steadily worsening a multi-faceted ecological crisis. Is a post-growth, post-capitalist world conceivable?

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Rise of the Juggernaut

Capitalism: like a giant vampire squid it writhes in a desperate attempt to whip all barriers out of the way and plunge its tentacles into new sources of growth.

“GDP growth is, ultimately, an indicator of the welfare of capitalism. That we have all come to see it as a proxy for the welfare of humans represents an extraordinary ideological coup.” (Jason Hickel)

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Change the Goal

Conventional economics has no goal except one by default: indefinite growth. In nature, this is the principle of cancer. To get back to health, it is time to give the economy a more meaningful purpose.

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Capitalism: A Creation Story

Allegory of Christopher Columbus landing in Cuba as a humankind benefactor

Capitalism is the first expansionist economic system in history. Contrary to its own myth, it did not emerge naturally and is far from being the expression of human freedom.

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Will Technology Save Us?

Will technology save us? Drawing of a small eco-friendly car on a background of wind turbines and buildings surrounded by trees.

“We can choose to keep shooting up the curve of exponential growth, bringing us ever closer to irreversible tipping points in ecological collapse, and hope that technology will save us. But if for some reason it doesn’t work, then we’re in trouble.” (Jason Hickel)

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