“The End of Capitalism” synopsis , a miniature version of the book-in-progress, has been finished!
The book will put forward the likelihood that the global capitalist system, structured around infinite growth, has reached an endpoint to expansion, both as a result of natural limits, such as peak oil, as well as social limits, manifested by people’s resistance to the system all over the world. The synopsis also explores two possible paths we might take from this momentous turning point: either towards a more militaristic and “fascist” future based on desperately clinging to the past, or a world built by the efforts of hopeful and forward-looking humanity, organizing from the bottom-up. Finally, a “holistic” approach to social change is put forward to inspire readers to imagine and take action for a better world, through the lenses of sustainability, democracy, justice, freedom and love.
I’m looking for responses to the synopsis so i can continue expanding the project for a mass audience, so if you’d like to submit feedback, ideas, comments, or questions, please send them to Alex at activistalex@gmail.com
Thanks. Here is the web version of the full synopsis, and below a link to a (shorter) summary version. If you’d like to receive a microsoft word copy, please email me and I will send it to you.
Happy Reading!
Synopsis Outline:
- Is This the End of Capitalism?
- What is Capitalism?
- Why is it Collapsing?
- What Comes After Capitalism?
- Conclusion: The World We Are Building
And here’s the Summary.
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June 19, 2009 at 9:29 pm
“The End of Capitalism” Synopsis Complete « AntiMatters The Blog
[…] Tags: capitalism, collapse, new world — Ulrich Mohrhoff @ 6:00 am June 16, 2009 at the End of Capitalism […]
July 29, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Roger Garcia-Marenco
Capitalism is so deeply ingrained in the Western Christian Culture that there is an irreducible symbiosis between both of them so strong that any of both would collapse isolatedly no mater what. And the Western culture will not collapse either if the Catholic Church survives. So they are three vast, solid, mighty, tenebrous, unscrupulous, criminal institutions for which the massacre of hundred of millions of humans beings to pursue the rewards of their greed is not an issue, so they will do the unimaginable to survive; they won’t wait to be in danger to act in a way that the humanity as a whole will cry, the terror that helped the Christianity to grab, dominate and mentally slave Europe first and the rest of the world later is still there in the mind of every Christian. Unfortunately, today is too late for to free humanity from the mental slavery that religious beliefs bring into the human mind when his owner is defenseless and his/her mind a blanch slate where to write anything that last a whole life. The fate of the masses is already set, they won’t survive century XXI, neither production automatization nor consumption need them anymore, high tech products for every single need are too expensive for the working class salary.
“The Man is an animal condemned to endlessly progress” It isn’t mine but I love it.