S.O.S. Alternatives to Capitalism

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Richard Swift. S.O.S. Alternatives to Capitalism

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‘Richard Swift’s S.O.S.: Alternatives to Capitalism makes a major contribution to changing the parameters of political debate. It helps us move beyond the pseudo-alternatives of the political mainstream and begin to work for the kind of change we can believe in without being delusional. We need serious and widespread discussion of Swift’s central thesis that a reinvigorated left politics focused on policies such as degrowth, control of capital, and a guaranteed income can lead us toward the overarching goal of a just, compassionate, ecologically sound and democratically self-managed post-capitalist society.’

John P Clark, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, New Orleans, and author of The Impossible Community.

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Communitarian alternatives

The ability of capitalism to recreate itself through destabilizing crises and the uprooting of peoples keeps this sense of discontent forever brewing. Today, many of the ideas about alternatives to capitalism are rooted in pre-capitalist communitarian traditions. One such can be seen in the work of the indigenous Bolivian sociologist Félix Patzi Paco, who champions the tradition of ayllu alluded to above. His is not some narrow backwoods project or anthropological oddity, but rather:

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