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?
Supernova: The Stellar Transformation
Thanks to the technologies we already have, we could step out of the extractive economic system that has shaped our world and our behaviors for millennia. What would this mean from a collective and a personal standpoint, respectively?
The Utopian Theory of Superpower: The Official Version
Promising “democracy, development, free markets, and free trade” to the world in the wake of 9/11, the U.S. administration unwittingly made the case that market fundamentalism contradicts democracy.
Domestic Politics in the Era of Superpower and Empire
By its military and economic weight on the international stage, the U.S. rightly fits the definition of an empire. To stand, it needs to deny ordinary Americans a genuine democracy.
Democracy’s Prospects: Looking Backward
In the past, political transparency toward the people was antithetical to the government by an aristocratic elite. But has the US ever been a a government of, by, and for the people and how could it genuinely become one?