Overview
- Presents a practical framework for the transformation of society
- Explores the history of capitalism for clues on how it can be changed
- Introduces concepts in a step by step manner to make them accessible and easily understandable
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left’s need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce real social and ecological change, and the need to look beyond traditional ideas of reform and revolution. The book discusses how a socio-economic organisation beyond money, wage labour, patriarchal division of work and centralised state planning may look like. It develops an approach to societal transformation based on seed forms of commons practices and social movements. This book will be relevant to activists, students and researchers interested in fundamental social change, political economy and feminist and Marxist economics.
This is an open access book.
This is an open access book.
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Keywords
- Post-capitalism
- Social ecology
- Model of a post-market society
- Post-state socialism
- Utopian thinking
- Commonism
- Interpersonal transformation theory
- State-oriented transformation theory
- Transvolution
- Categorical utopia theory
- Limits of utopian thinking
- The origins of capitalism
- Development of commonism
- Open Access
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Simon Sutterlütti is a sociologist and economist, blogger on keimform.de, member of the Commons Institute and the “Utopia Network” and works at the project “Society After Money”.
Stefan Meretz is an engineer, computer scientist, co-founder of the Commons Institute, co-founder of the scientific project “Society After Money” and blogger on keimform.de.
Stefan Meretz is an engineer, computer scientist, co-founder of the Commons Institute, co-founder of the scientific project “Society After Money” and blogger on keimform.de.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Make Capitalism History
Book Subtitle: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society
Authors: Simon Sutterlütti, Stefan Meretz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14645-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14644-2Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14647-3Published: 20 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14645-9Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 232
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Public Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics