Moving Beyond Capitalism

Forward by Richard D. Wolff Part I: Economic Democracy / The Social Economy 1. Beyond Capitalism to Sustainability: The Public Bank Solution 2. Building a Grassroots Democratic Economy: The Rising Tide of Local Self-Reliance, Workplace Democracy, and Social Justice 3. Worker’s Economy in Argentina: Self Management, Cooperatives and Recovered Enterprises in a Time of Global Crisis 4. Cooperative Cuba Part II: The Commons 5. Commoning Together 6. Building the Commons as an Antidote to the Predatory Market Economy 7. Autogestión: Prefiguring a New Cooperativism and the ‘Labor Commons’ 8. Divisions in the Commons: Ecuador’s FLOK Society and the Zapatistas’ Escuelita Part III: Alternatives to a System in Crisis 9. Economic Crises, Environmental Crises: Moving beyond Capitalism 10. The Left and a Green New Deal 11. Alternatives to Development in Latin America Part IV: Bringing Politics Back In 12. The Limits of Localism 13. Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope 14. Toward A Stronger, More Influential Political Left: An Appeal for Critical Self-Reflection Part V: Socialism in the 21st Century 15. Building a 21st Century Socialism 16. Out of the Abyss, the New World 17. The Communal State (Venezuela): Communal Councils and Workplace Democracy 18. The Necessary Renovation of Socialist Hegemony in Cuba: Contradictions and Challenges 19. Cuba’s Cooperatives: Their Contribution to Cuba’s New Socialism 20. The Dialectic of Constituent Power and Constituted Power