George Lawson and Barry Buzan (LSE): Capitalism and the Emergent World Order. Kevin Funk (Florida): Capitalists of the World, Unite? Progress and Lacunae in the Study of the Transnational Capitalist Class. Ingar Solty (York): Is the Global Crisis Ending the Marriage of Capitalism and Liberal Democracy? (Il-)Legitimate Political Power and the New Global Anti-Capitalist Mass Movements in the Context of the Internationalization of the State. John Asimakopoulos (CUNY): Bridging Utopia and Pragmatism to Achieve Direct Economic Democracy. In imagining a homogenized future labor force, accelerationism ignores how capital opportunistically sustains difference to survive. Lincoln Dahlberg (Queensland): Capitalism as a Discursive System? Interrogating Discourse Theory’s Contribution to Critical Political Economy. From Lutte de Classe, articles on the global balance of forces today and the long crisis of the capitalist economy. From NLR, how will capitalism end? Its challengers apparently vanquished, the main threat to capitalism may now come from disorders that lurk within the system itself — Wolfgang Streeck diagnoses its crisis symptoms; and has the rise of the BRICs weakened the West’s grip on core sectors of the world economy? Sean Starrs weighs impressions of Western decline against the empirical evidence, finding plentiful signs of enduring US and European corporate power. David Graeber on how savage capitalism is back — and it will not tame itself. Ponzi scheme capitalism: Steffen Bohm interviews David Harvey, author of Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. Vishrut Arya reviews Does Capitalism Have a Future? by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian and Craig Calhoun. Benjamin Kunkel on Utopia or Bust: Unless a complex order distinct from liberal capitalism becomes conceivable for masses of people, the left can only propose a leap in the dark. Utopia series: how Capitalism should be reformed. “The perfect society is an illusion”: An interview with Tomas Sedlacek on why there’s good reason not to blame capitalism for our contemporary ills but something much more inherently human.
