Post-capitalist futures : political economy beyond crisis and hope

This book critically engages with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of Critical International Political Economy to interrogate how we might begin to envisage a political economy of postcapitalism. The authors foreground the agency of workers and other capitalist subjects, and their desire to engage in a range of radical experiments in decommodification and democratisation both in the workplace and in their daily lives. It includes a broad range of ideas including the future of social reproduction, human capital circulation, political Islam, the political economy of exclusion and eco-communities. Rather than focusing on the ending of capitalism as an implosion of the value-money form, this book focuses on the dream of equal participation in the determination of people's shared collective destiny. Adam Fishwick is Associate Professor / Reader in IPE and Development Studies at De Montfort University. His research focuses on labour movements and strategies of self-organising in Latin America. He is co-editor of Austerity and Working-Class Resistance (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) and has written for Le Monde Diplomatique, openDemocracy and Progress in Political Economy. Nicholas Kiersey is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research addresses austerity, biopolitics, and the crises of the neoliberal capitalist state. He is currently working on a book about socialist governmentality, and the cultural political economy of the end of capitalism. Cover 1 Contents 6 Introduction: The Endings of Capitalism beyond Crisis and Hope - Adam Fishwick and Nicholas Kiersey 8 1. Critical IPE and the End of History - Owen Worth 33 2. Dialectical Ends and Beginnings: Why Barbarism at the End of Capitalism Means Barbarism beyond Capitalism - Bryant William Sculos 54 4. Development Alternatives: Old Challenges and New Hybridities in China and Latin America - Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer 93 5. ‘Property Belongs to Allah, Capital, Get Out!’ Turkey’s Anti-capitalist Muslims and the Concept of Alternatives to Capitalism - Gorkem Altinors 115 6. Socialist Governmentality and the Problem of the Capital Strike, or, a Defense of Fully Automated Luxury Communism - Nicholas Kiersey 133 7. Belaboured Markets: Imagining a More Democratic Global Economic Order - Jonathon W. Moses 159 8. Post-capitalism and Associated Reactions: Mapping Alternative Routes and Transcending Strategic Certainty - David J. Bailey 181 9. Mapping Post-capitalist Futures in Dark Times - Adam Fishwick 203 10. The Distance Between Two Dreams: Post-neoliberalism and the Politics of Awakening - Japhy Wilson 223 Afterword: Living in the Catastrophe - Adam Fishwick and Nicholas Kiersey 246 Notes on Contributors 256 Index 259 Presents a collection of essays that critically engage with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of Critical International Political Economy to interrogate how we might begin to envisage a political economy of postcapitalism. The authors foreground the agency of workers and other capitalist subjects, and their desire to engage in a range of radical experiments in decommodification and democratization both in the workplace and in their daily lives. It includes a broad range of ideas including the future of social reproduction, human capital circulation, political Islam, the political economy of exclusion and eco-communities. Rather than focusing on the ending of capitalism as an implosion of the value-money form, this book focuses on the dream of equal participation in the determination of people's shared collective destiny. --From publisher description

This book critically engages with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of Critical International Political Economy to interrogate how we might begin to envisage a political economy of postcapitalism.

The authors foreground the agency of workers and other capitalist subjects, and their desire to engage in a range of radical experiments in decommodification and democratisation both in the workplace and in their daily lives. It includes a broad range of ideas including the future of social reproduction, human capital circulation, political Islam, the political economy of exclusion and eco-communities.

Rather than focusing on the ending of capitalism as an implosion of the value-money form, this book focuses on the dream of equal participation in the determination of people's shared collective destiny.

This book critically engages with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of Critical International Political Economy to interrogate how we might begin to envisage a political economy of postcapitalism. The authors foreground the agency of workers and other capitalist subjects, and their desire to engage in a range of radical experiments in decommodification and democratization both in the workplace and in their daily lives. It includes a broad range of ideas including the future of social reproduction, human capital circulation, political Islam, the political economy of exclusion and eco-communities. Rather than focusing on the ending of capitalism as an implosion of the value-money form, this book focuses on the dream of equal participation in the determination of people's shared collective destiny.