Post-capitalism is another capitalist snowjob

See this article. Some excerpts:

"Academics, content-providers and the staffs of nonprofits [...] offer reassuring-sounding it-won’t-be-that-bad schemes like 'cradle to cradle, 'conscious capitalism,' 'social entrepreneurship, and 'green capitalism.' But these are quickly revealed to be the same old crap in prettier packaging. Then they decry capitalism’s 'excesses' by defining the problem not a capitalism itself, but as errors within an otherwise acceptable economic system. They add qualifiers: crony capitalism, disaster capitalism, corporate capitalism, blah blah blah. They build stellar careers as public intellectuals by offering the comforting thought that if we could simply eliminate its worst elements, the system might yet be saved. But this formula sounds increasingly hollow, as people figure out that the worst aspects of capitalism aren’t a mistake. They’re inherent to it."


"Let’s see what remedies many of them point to: 'collaborative commons,' 'workplace democracy,' 'workers’ co-ops,' 'mutual aid,' the 'sharing economy.' These sound good, and indeed some of them may be positive and necessary steps toward a non-capitalist mode of production. But they are just that—steps—and it’s a mistake to confuse them with the path as a whole. Unless the framework of capitalism is broken entirely, they circle back to the beginning every time. Capitalism is not damaged simply because we engage in activity that is cooperative, non-hierarchical, collaborative or 'socialistic.' It can and often does assimilate this activity, monetize it to generate new revenue streams. At the same time it helps manage and metabolize our discontent."

"To get beyond capitalism, we cannot wait or hope or engineer an upgrade. There is no easy way out. We need to emancipate ourselves from it through struggle; we need to destroy it."