Moving Beyond Capitalism

Edited by Cliff DuRand

Routledge R Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND 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 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 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 (): 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