Moving Beyond Capitalism
Edited by Cliff DuRand
Routledge R Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK Contents
List offigures and table x Contributors xi Foreword xvi RICHARD D. WOLFF Acknowledgements xix List of abbreviations xx
Introduction 1 CLIFF DURAND
PARTI Economic democracy / The social economy 9
1 Beyond capitalism to sustainability: The public bank Solution 11 ELLEN BROWN
2 Building a grassroots democratic economy: The rising tide of local self-reliance, workplace democracy and social justice 17 LEN KRIMERMAN
3 Workers' economy in Argentina: Self-management, cooperatives and recovered enterprises in a time of global crisis 27 ANDRES RUGGERI
4 Cooperative Cuba 36 CLIFF DURAND viii Contents PART II The commons
5 Commoning together CLIFF DURAND
6 Building the commons as an antidote to the predatory market economy MARGARET FLOWERS AND KEVIN ZEESE
7 Autogestiön: Prefiguring a 'new cooperativism' and the 'labour commons' MARCELO VIETA
8 Divisions in the commons: Ecuador's FLOK Society and the Zapatistas' Escuelita GEORGE CAFFENTZIS
PART III Alternatives to a system in crisis
9 Economic crises, environmental crises: Moving beyond capitalism DAVID SCHWEICKART
10 The left and a Green New Deal JERRY HARRIS
11 Alternatives to development in Latin America REBECCA HÜLLENDER
PART IV Bringing politics back in
12 The limits of localism GREGORY DIAMANT
13 Gelting past capitalism: History, vision, hope CYNTHIA KAUFMAN Contents ix 14 Toward a strenger, more influential political left: An appeal for critical self-reflection 134 MICHAEL P. MCCABE
PART V Socialism in the twenty-first Century 147
15 Building a twenty-first-century socialism 149 CLIFF DURAND
16 Out of the abyss, the new world 152 GUSTAVO ESTEVA
17 The communal State (Venezuela): Communal councils and workplace demoeraey 170 DARIO AZZELLINI
18 The necessary renovation of socialist hegemony in Cuba: Contradictions and challenges 179 OLGA FERNÄNDEZ RIOS
19 Cuba's cooperatives: Their contribution to Cuba's new socialism 184 CAMILA PINEIRO HARNECKER
20 The dialectic of constituent power and constituted power 195 CLIFF DURAND
Bibliography 200 Index 218