Organización para la transición anti-capitalista
Keywords:
class character of the current crisis, surplus capital, surplus labor, accumulation by dispossession, social control of surplus, anti-capitalist political movement, co-revolutionary theoryAbstract
Harvey’s article is structured around the following questions: Can capitalism survive its current trauma? Can the capitalist class reproduce its power in the name of countless serious economic, social, political, geopolitical and environmental difficulties? How will the capitalist class emerge from the current crisis and how soon will it end? Can the world change materially, socially, mentally and politically, so that it can face not only the terrible state of natural and social relations, but also the endless perpetuation of compound growth? What are the spaces remaining in the global economy for new spatial arrangements to absorb surplus capital? Can the Left negotiate the dynamics of the crisis? Another world is possible? Another communism is possible?
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