How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Wright, Erik Olin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface 1. Why Be Anticapitalist?

What is capitalism? Grounds for opposing capitalism Normative foundations

Equality/fairness Democracy/freedom Community/solidarity

2. Diagnosis and Critique of Capitalism

Equality/fairness

Class and exploitation Competition and risk Disruptive economic growth

Democracy/freedom Community/solidarity Skepticism

3. Varieties of Anticapitalism

Strategic logics

Smashing capitalism Dismantling capitalism Taming capitalism Resisting capitalism Escaping capitalism

Strategic configurations Eroding capitalism

4. The Destination beyond Capitalism: Socialism as Economic Democracy

A power-centered concept of socialism Building blocks of a democratic socialist economy

Unconditional basic income The cooperative market economy The social and solidarity economy Democratizing capitalist firms Banking as a public utility

Nonmarket economic organization

State provision of goods and services Peer-to-peer collaborative production The knowledge commons

Back to the problem of strategy

5. Anticapitalism and the State

The problem of the capitalist state

Internal contradictions of the state Contradictory, contested functionality

Prospects Democratizing the state

Democratically empowered decentralization New forms of citizen participation New institutions for democratic representation Democratizing electoral rules of the game

6. Agents of Transformation

Collective actors for eroding capitalism The problem of collective agency

The concept of “agency” Identities Interests Values

From identities, interests and values to collective actors

Overcoming privatized lives Fragmented class structures Competing sources of identity

Real politics

Afterword by Michael Burawoy