“After Capitalism”
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This is a new Video series from the Guardian website http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/after-capitalism
It will probably be mostly garbage but it’s interesting that even the subject of thinking what might come after Capitalism is now being discussed like this. Would this have happened even 5 years ago?
Can’t wait to put my post-capitalist money in a public bank and get my state insurance for free. If you make post-capitalism look so much like capitalism that you can’t tell the difference, except that you project a few current institutional trends within it forward (‘It’s already here’) then all that is happening is that you are singing the praises of the future of capitalism. Good propaganda. Keeps the system ticking over nicely. I hate feeling cynical, but that’s the fallout from being a socialist in a world of deceptive ideology. If you can read anything into this, I think it will go something like this. People are engaging in post-capitalist speculation right now. We need to co-opt that in the interests of promoting the way we see the world (the capitalist way). Where have we seen this kind of thing before? If, as I suspect, this is a response to the recent questioning of capitalism, then I guess It’s a good sign that they feel the need to fight back.
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