Tag: capitalism

Español, Leonardo Boff

El capitalismo será derrotado por la Tierra

[30/11/2015, Leonardo Boff] Hay un hecho indiscutible y desolador: el capitalismo como modo de producción y su ideología política, el neoliberalismo, se han sedimentado globalmente de forma tan consistente que parecen hacer inviable cualquier alternativa real. De hecho, ha ocupado todos los espacios y alineado casi todos los países a sus intereses globales. Desde que la sociedad pasó a ser de mercado y todo se … Continue reading El capitalismo será derrotado por la Tierra

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Español, François Houtart

El Impacto de la crisis mundial sobre el modelo posneoliberal en el Ecuador

[François Houtart y Pablo Caller i Salas] Para analizar una situación, evidentemente compleja, vinculada con una coyuntura internacional caótica que escapa a la capacidad de acción de cualquier país, especialmente del Sur, se debe salir de explicaciones simples reduciendo los procesos sociales a un voluntarismo colectivo o personal, que desembocan sobre acusaciones mutuas, sin excluir la utilización de la violencia institucional o espontánea. Tampoco se … Continue reading El Impacto de la crisis mundial sobre el modelo posneoliberal en el Ecuador

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Analysis, Español, Others

Se acelera el fin del ciclo progresista

[Raúl Zibechi, La Jornada, Opinion, 30/09/2015] Cada quien elige el lugar desde el cual mira el mundo, pero esa elección tiene consecuencias y determina lo que puede ver y lo que irremediablemente se le escapa. El punto de observación no es nunca un lugar neutro, como no lo puede ser el que observa. Más aún, el observador es modelado por el lugar que elige para … Continue reading Se acelera el fin del ciclo progresista

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English, Various

The end of capitalism has begun

Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian [Paul Mason, 07/17/2015, The Guardian, Illustration by Joe Magee] The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, … Continue reading The end of capitalism has begun

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English, Various

Alain Badiou: Eleven points inspired by the situation in Greece

[Verso Books, Miri Davidson, july 09 2015] It is urgently necessary to internationalise the Greek people’s cause. Only the total elimination of the debt would bring an “ideological blow” to the current European system. 1. The Greek people’s massive “No” does not mean a rejection of Europe. It means a rejection of the bankers’ Europe, of infinite debt and of globalised capitalism. 2. Isn’t it … Continue reading Alain Badiou: Eleven points inspired by the situation in Greece

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Economic, Various

¿Llegó el fin del idilio China – América Latina?

[Lucy Hornby / Andrés Schipani, Milenio,19/01/2015] Nicolás Maduro, el presidente venezolano, anunció una inversión de 20 mil millones de dólares (mdd) procedente de China. Pero no dijo si era lo que buscaba: un rescate financiero de su más grande acreedor. La confusión habla mucho sobre cómo la desaceleración de la economía china y el desplome de los precios de las materias primas ponen a prueba … Continue reading ¿Llegó el fin del idilio China – América Latina?

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Commons, English, Various

Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Commons

[David Bollier & Burns H. Weston, wealthofthecommons.org] At least since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, we have known about humankind’s squandering of nonrenewable resources, its careless disregard of precious life species and its overall contamination and degradation of delicate ecosystems. In recent decades, these defilements have assumed a systemic dimension. Lately we have come to realize the shocking extent to which our atmospheric emission of carbon dioxide … Continue reading Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Commons

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Deglobalization

Notes for the debate: Deglobalization

Versión en español Download this text in PDF format World Integration for People and Nature What is Deglobalization? To answer that question, we must first be clear on our definition of globalization. Dr. Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan has compiled around one hundred definitions of globalization in his paper, “Definitions of Globalization: A Comprehensive Overview and a Proposed Definition.”1 The majority tend to define the term as … Continue reading Notes for the debate: Deglobalization

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Analysis, Commons, Economic, English, François Houtart

SOUTH/SOUTH COLABORATION FOR A POST-CAPITALIST PARADIGM

[François Houtart[1]] In July 2014 a new step was taken towards constructing a multi-polar world, with the meeting in Brazil of the BRICS, the constitution of a new Bank and of a Fund for Development. This was followed by a joint meeting between the BRICS, UNASUR, the Organization of the South American States and CELAC (the Community of Latin America and the Caribbean). All this happened … Continue reading SOUTH/SOUTH COLABORATION FOR A POST-CAPITALIST PARADIGM

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English, Publications, Vivir Bien

Notes for the Debate: Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir

We recommend to read the Chapter Vivir Bien in the book Systemic Alternatives  https://systemicalternatives.org/2017/03/14/vivir-bien-2/ Versión en español Let’s walk with our backs toward the future and our eyes on the past, so we can find our way to utopia. What is Vivir Bien? Is it an idea that reclaims ethical principles and knowledge? A practice or proposal of the Andean indigenous peoples? A philosophy? A paradigm … Continue reading Notes for the Debate: Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir

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Economy..., English, Tim Jackson

Video: Tim Jackson’s TED Talk: An economic reality check

[Tim Jackson, 2010] As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future. Of the credit and debt cycle, he says: “This is a strange, rather perverse story. It’s a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we don’t have on things … Continue reading Video: Tim Jackson’s TED Talk: An economic reality check

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Analysis, David Harvey, Economic, Español, Global, Various

Algunas ideas sobre Piketty

[ David Harvey] Publicado por Guillem Murcia, 20 mayo 2014. A continuación publicamos la reseña que el profesor David Harvey ha hecho del libro de Thomas Piketty “El Capital en el siglo XXI”. David Harvey es profesor en la City University of New York, y lleva más de 40 años enseñando, divulgando e investigando sobre la opera magna de Marx, El Capital. Entre sus contribuciones se halla una serie de clases en vídeo sobre la obra … Continue reading Algunas ideas sobre Piketty

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David Harvey, Economic, English

Afterthoughts on Piketty’s Capital

[David Harvey] Thomas Piketty has written a book called Capital that has caused quite a stir. He advocates progressive taxation and a global wealth tax as the only way to counter the trend towards the creation of a “patrimonial” form of capitalism marked by what he dubs “terrifying” inequalities of wealth and income. He also documents in excruciating and hard to rebut detail how social … Continue reading Afterthoughts on Piketty’s Capital

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Economy..., English, István Mészáros

The Only Viable Economy

[István Mészáros] 1. Once upon a time the capitalist mode of production represented a great advance over all of the preceding ones, however problematical and indeed destructive this historical advance in the end turned out—and had to turn out—to be.  By breaking the long prevailing but constraining direct link between human use and production, and replacing it with the commodity relation, capital opened up the dynamically unfolding possibilities … Continue reading The Only Viable Economy

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David Harvey, English, Geopolitical

The Right to the City

[David Harvey – New Left Review 53, 2008] We live in an era when ideals of human rights have moved centre stage both politically and ethically. A great deal of energy is expended in promoting their significance for the construction of a better world. But for the most part the concepts circulating do not fundamentally challenge hegemonic liberal and neoliberal market logics, or the dominant modes … Continue reading The Right to the City

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David Harvey, Economic, English

The Crisis of Capitalism This Time Around

[David Harvey – prologue of “Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism” (Profile Books, 2014)] Crises are essential to the reproduction of capitalism. It is in the course of crises that the instabilities of capitalism are confronted, reshaped and re-engineered to create a new version of what capitalism is about. Much gets torn down and laid waste to make way for the new. Once-productive landscapes … Continue reading The Crisis of Capitalism This Time Around

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David Harvey, Economy..., English

David Harvey interview: The importance of postcapitalist imagination

[David Harvey, 2013] Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from an interview that ran in Red Pepper and the Irish Left Review in which Harvey sets out some ideas from his new book on the contradictions of capital. He says creating a post-capitalist world requires changing the monetary system and creating a common property regime. Q. Is the era of finance capitalism which has developed … Continue reading David Harvey interview: The importance of postcapitalist imagination

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Analysis, Elizabeth Peredo, Español, Nature

El agua en los tiempos de balance

[Elizabeth Peredo Beltrán, octubre 2013] .- Hace ya más de 12 años que los activistas bolivianos vivimos una épica lucha por el agua que terminó con la salida de la transnacional Bechtel del país. Ese episodio de la historia boliviana se convirtió en símbolo de la lucha mundial por recuperar uno de los elementos más importantes para la existencia humana: el agua, como el sentido … Continue reading El agua en los tiempos de balance

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Ecosocialism, Español, Michael Lowy

Manifiesto ecosocialista

[Joel Kovel y Michael Löwy 2001] English Version Introducción. La idea de este manifiesto ecosocialista fue lanzada en conjunto por Joel Kovel y Michael Löwy en un taller sobre ecología y socialismo celebrado en Vincennes, cerca de París, en septiembre de 2001. Todos sufrimos de un caso crónico de la paradoja de Gramsci, al vivir en un tiempo cuyo viejo orden está muriendo (arrastrando a … Continue reading Manifiesto ecosocialista

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