How capitalism ends : history, ideology and progress

How capitalism ends History, ideology and progress

Steve Paxton

Book - 2023

While the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the 'logic' of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions. We've passed the point where our biggest enemy is material scarcity. Our problems no longer revolve around insufficient production, but iniquitous distribution - and the fact that we're fast running out of planet - and these are problems that capitalism cannot solve. Taking in a diverse range of contemporary and historical evidence - from the Putney Debates of 1647 to Modern Monetary Theory, from John Locke to Thomas Piketty, from the Rights of Man to the rise of identity politics How Capitalism Ends navigates a path through current affairs, history, econ...omics and philosophy and sets the scene for the conversation we, as a civilization, urgently need to begin...--

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Subjects
Capitalism.
Income distribution.
Social justice.
Published
Alresford, Hampshire ; Washington, USA : Zer0 Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing Ltd 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Steve Paxton (author)
Physical Description
xvi, 224 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-224).
ISBN
9781803410005
  • Introduction
  • Part I. History
  • 1. Capitalism and Progress
  • 1.1. Where We Are Now
  • 1.2. How We Arrived Here
  • 1.3. Understanding Historical Change
  • 1.4. What is Capitalism?
  • 1.5. Capitalism and Progress
  • 2. The Rise of Capitalism
  • 2.1. The Development of Capitalism in England
  • 2.2. The Spread of Capitalism - France and the US
  • 2.3. The Russian Road to Capitalism
  • 2.4. Revolution and Reform
  • 2.5. Economic Determinism
  • 3. Capitalism Undone
  • 3.1. Does Capitalism Still Work?
  • 3.2. Capitalism and Rationality
  • 3.3. Automation and Artificial Intelligence
  • 3.4. Rescuing the Proletariat
  • 3.5. The Changing Shape of Inequality
  • Part II. Ideology
  • 4. Left and Right
  • 4.1. Origins
  • 4.2. The Duality of the Left
  • 4.3. The Duality of the Right
  • 4.4. Civil Rights and Natural Rights
  • 5. Equality of What?
  • 5.1. Wealth Inequality
  • 5.2. The Cult of the Status Quo
  • 5.3. Equality or Sufficiency?
  • 5.4. Is Inequality Inevitable?
  • 6. Property and Freedom
  • 6.1. Which Property?
  • 6.2. Property and Freedom
  • 6.3. Property and Rights
  • 6.4. The Distribution of Ownership
  • 6.5. The Origins of Property Rights
  • 6.6. Property and Productivity
  • 6.7. The Possible and the Permissible
  • 6.8. Distributive Justice
  • Part III. Progress
  • 7. Work
  • 7.1. Work and Virtue
  • 7.2. Beyond the Labour Market
  • 7.3. The Distribution of Effort
  • 7.4. The Distribution of Reward
  • 8. Money
  • 8.1. Modern Monetary Theory
  • 8.2. Transforming Wealth
  • 9. Beyond Capitalism
  • 9.1. Levelling the Playing Field
  • 9.2. From Employment to Empowerment
  • 9.3. Health, Housing and Education
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword: The Politics of Change
  • Endnotes
  • Works Cited

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