Postcapitalism

Co-written with Dot on January 2022. With the defeat of the final challenger to the centuries long reign of Capitalism, a new millennium began, the End of History. As long as we embrace the tenets of good governance under a capitalist democracy, we can flourish. Only a matter of time…

Introduction In 2001, my PhD Advisor at the University of Colorado recommended I read the book Natural Capitalism. He knew I was passionate about entrepreneurship as a discipline and that personally I was an outdoor, mountain sports enthusiast. He had already embraced the idea that those two worlds could be…

Although we may not realize it, some experts suggest that we might already be living in a post-capitalist society where the capitalist system, which dates back to the 19th century, no longer exists. While we can’t know this with absolute certainty, there are some interesting developments that could indicate such…

I was staring at hundreds of batches of images my computer was generating through an AI Art program. A GB of batches over the course of a month, each image around 0.3–1.5mbs in size. It dawned on me that this thing has created more art than everyone in my neighborhood…

In one sense we can see that Red is dead: For decades the holiday of the socialist-labor movement, May Day, was celebrated widely. It’s not anymore. And yet, leftists still often reference the guru of the socialist-labor movement, Karl Marx . . . even though the essence of his worldview, his progressive-developmentalist theory of history, should by now be recognized as deluded. Leftists still reference Karl Marx as the oracle of post-capitalism.

[this is taken from chapters 5 and 3 of the compilation: Post-Capitalist Futures: Paradigms, Politics, and Prospects] Chapter 5. Collective Sufficiency: Degrowth as a Political Project By Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson (synopsis) The degrowth movement calls for planned economic contraction of overdeveloped economies on the path to a steady-state…

And why should too I recently resigned in protest. I am not protesting my company, per say. I am protesting the type of society I was holding up. Show up to work. Put on a happy face. Be efficient. Be a good worker bee. Sell some widgets to other widget…

Samuel Alexander’s growing corpus is significant in regard to what might conceivably be the most important movement “project” of our time: transitioning the ideology and praxis of the Left “from Red to Green.” This is based on lessons learned over the last century and a half suggesting that transcending capitalism…