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How to be an anticapitalist today

Jason W. Moore (Binghamton): Nature in the Limits to Capital (and Vice Versa): Why Limits Thinking is So Flawed and How to Start Fixing It. Kamil Ahsan interviews Jason Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (and more and more). Johanna Bockman (George Mason): Socialist Globalization against Capitalist Neocolonialism: The Economic Ideas behind the New International Economic Order. Sandra Mathison (UBC): Confronting Capitalism: Evaluation for Social Equity. David Pavon-Cuellar (UMSNH): The Metapsychology of Capital. Kees Van der Pijl (Sussex): Fractions or Varieties of Capital in the Crisis; and Democratic Capitalism in the Last Stages? Capital as Agency in Wolfgang Streeck’s Analysis of the Crisis.

The eastern origins of capitalism? Spencer Dimmock reviews How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu. Slaves were the capital that made capitalism: Julia Ott on how it came to be that black lives haven’t mattered. Did socialism keep capitalism equal? Branko Milanovic investigates. From Jacobin, Vivek Chibber on development from below: Capitalists are interested in profit, not development — only workers can empower the Global South; and Erik Olin Wright on how to be an anticapitalist today: Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative (and more). On algorithmic communism: Ian Lowrie reviews Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Welcome to your post-capitalist future: Are you ready for the change? After capitalism: Where we’re going we don’t need roads.