… what could life in Australia be like after the failure of capitalism? That’s the title of my latest piece in The Guardian . It’s had quite a good run, but of course, plenty of pushback, mainly along the following lines General objections to any kind of utopian thinking, even the very modest version in my articlePolitical impossibilityWhat about Stalin/Venezuela ?What I haven’t seen, interestingly, is any suggestion that continuing expansion of financialised capitalism (aka neoliberalism) would produce a better outcome. Feel free to discuss this and other issues Like this:Like Loading...
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… what could life in Australia be like after the failure of capitalism?
That’s the title of my latest piece in The Guardian . It’s had quite a good run, but of course, plenty of pushback, mainly along the following lines
- General objections to any kind of utopian thinking, even the very modest version in my article
- Political impossibility
- What about Stalin/Venezuela ?
What I haven’t seen, interestingly, is any suggestion that continuing expansion of financialised capitalism (aka neoliberalism) would produce a better outcome. Feel free to discuss this and other issues