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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: While capitalism boasts many successes, it likewise suffers many failures too.
Chapter 3: Classical Marxism claims opposition to capitalism should rest on workers’ class interests, rather than on moral values.
Chapter 4: To succeed in today’s era, anticapitalists cannot rely solely on appeals to people’s class interests alone anymore.
Chapter 5: Anticapitalists must acknowledge the significance of people’s moral values and identities today.
Chapter 6: By invoking moral values, we can better link anticapitalist politics to people’s diverse identities and interests.
Chapter 7: Anticapitalism can be based on three pairs of values: equality/fairness, democracy/freedom, and community/solidarity.
Chapter 8: Capitalism falls short of meeting our core moral values.
Chapter 9: Democratic socialism offers an alternative to both statism and capitalism.
Chapter 10: Elements of democratic socialism already exist within our current society.
Chapter 11: Capitalism can be gradually worn down and replaced by democratic socialism.
Chapter 12: Both the market and the state have parts to play in transitioning to democratic socialism successfully.
Chapter 13: Anticapitalists should pursue a mix of four strategies: taming, resisting, escaping, and dismantling capitalism.
Description
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century (2019) is both a moral critique of capitalism and a pragmatic strategy guide to building an alternative economic system. Drawing from Erik Olin Wright’s four decades of work in sociology, it provides a nuanced account of why democratic socialism is both possible and desirable.
Who Should Listen
- Anticapitalists looking for new ways of thinking
- Pro-capitalists who want to understand their opponents’ views
- Skeptics who aren’t sure which side of the debate is right