Thursday, December 3, 2015

How to be an anticapitalist today

From this article:

"Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative."

"Historically, anticapitalism has been animated by four different logics of resistance: smashing capitalism, taming capitalism, escaping capitalism, and eroding capitalism. These logics often coexist and intermingle, but they each constitute a distinct way of responding to the harms of capitalism.

"These four forms of anticapitalism can be thought of as varying along two dimensions.
One concerns the goal of anticapitalist strategies — transcending the structures of capitalism or simply neutralizing the worst harms of capitalism — while the other dimension concerns the primary target of the strategies — whether the target is the state and other institutions at the macro-level of the system, or the economic activities of individuals, organizations, and communities at the micro-level.

"Taking these two dimensions together gives us the typology below."


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