After CapitalismLiberal, democratic capitalism as the end of history? Not necessarily. After Capitalism argues that there are forces developing in the world today that might constitute a "counterproject" to the project of globalizing capitalism. At present, however, this movement lacks a coherent vision of a viable, desirable alternative. After Capitalism attempts to fill this lacuna by articulating, as a successor-system to capitalism, a model of "Economic Democracy, " an economic system that preserves the efficiency strengths of a market economy, while extending democracy to the workplace and to the structures of investment finance. |
Contents
46 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION | 113 |
461 Overpopulation | 114 |
462 Food Scarcity | 115 |
463 Pollution | 116 |
464 Optimism Pessimism Growth Development | 117 |
465 Why Capitalism Cant Save Us | 121 |
Economic Democracy Why We Need It | 127 |
SOME BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE | 128 |
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THE EXPANDED MODEL | 80 |
361 Socialist Savings and Loan Associations | 81 |
362 Capitalists under Socialism | 82 |
Capitalism and Its Discontents | 87 |
41 INEQUALITY | 88 |
42 UNEMPLOYMENT | 93 |
43 OVERWORK | 98 |
44 POVERTY | 100 |
45 DEMOCRACY LACK THEREOF | 104 |
451 A Note on Anticommunism | 110 |
52 INEQUALITY | 131 |
53 UNEMPLOYMENT | 135 |
531 A Note on Inflation | 138 |
54 OVERWORK | 140 |
55 POVERTY | 143 |
551 Poverty in Rich Countries | 144 |
553 A Note on Immigration | 147 |
554 Poverty in Poor Countries | 148 |
56 DEMOCRACY | 151 |
561 A Note on Liberty | 152 |
562 A Note on Political Parties | 153 |
563 Democracy and Imperialism | 155 |
57 ECOLOGY | 156 |
Getting from Here to There | 161 |
62 AN ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY REFORM AGENDA | 167 |
621 The Extension and Deepening of Workplace Democracy | 168 |
623 Toward Fair Trade | 170 |
631 Radical Quick | 171 |
632 Once MoreThis Time with Feeling for the Stockholders | 173 |
64 A NEW COMMUNISM? | 177 |
Bibliography | 181 |
Index | 187 |
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Page 94 - All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilized nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones ; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe.
Page 6 - Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Page 94 - In place of the old wants, satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and selfsufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal interdependence of nations.
Page 178 - We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.
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Page 94 - The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country.
Page 178 - The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.
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