Getting out of capitalism, instructions for use
“To be anti-capitalist is necessarily to be a communist”: this argument is regularly hurled at critics of liberalism.
It's the famous "There is no alternative" by Margaret Thatcher, it's also the end of history theorized by F. Fukuyama: capitalism would be the answer, the inescapable way, and we envisage the end more easily of the world than the transformation of the economic system in which we live.
For several decades, the ways of organizing society have therefore been brutally reduced to two options: bloodthirsty communism or unbridled capitalism. The hundreds of other possible ways of working have been brushed aside. Yet there are many economists who think there are alternatives to communism and capitalism. Many have tried to imagine a third way, which takes up neither the failings of capitalism nor those of communism. The question that now arises in view of the ecological emergency and the unprecedented increase in inequalities is simple: get out of capitalism yes, but to go where? Several academics have come together to produce a book proposing and detailing different paths. They want to “try to define what we are fighting for and not just what we are fighting against. »
So what might a post-capitalist economy look like? Salomé Saqué offers answers with economist Simon Tremblay-Pepin in this new economic program for Blast.