1. sciencedirect.com

    Jul 1, 2024Capitalist catastrophism is characterized by crises — like the coronavirus and climate breakdown — that are not immediately economic in origin but nevertheless have the power to destroy business as usual. Mainstream economists like to call such crises "exogenous" (Song et al., 2020). These are events that are said to arrive from outside ...
  2. From Capitalist Realism to Capitalist Catastrophism. Capitalist realism had three essential features. First, that it was easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism; second, that the future was cancelled; and third, that the capitalist realist condition was a class project in need of constant reinforcement by the bourgeoisie.. Under capitalist catastrophism these features ...
  3. research.lancs.ac.uk

    Jul 31, 2024Capitalist catastrophism has three characteristics. First, a newfound ability for social movements and theorists to imagine post-capitalist futures combined with an inability to realize them. Second, cascading and mutually amplifying social and ecological crises that outrun the capacities of states and capital to contain them. Third, an ...
  4. scholar.google.com

    Capitalist Catastrophism. K Heron. Roar, 2020. 11: 2020: ... We Still Have a World to Win: From Capitalist Realism to Post-Capitalist Desire. K Heron. Mediations (Journal of the Marxist Literary Group), Chicago 33 (1-2), 173-179, 2019. 3: 2019: Capitalists fear the Green New Deal: And for good reason.
  5. monthlyreview.org

    It admits that the environmental crisis is wrapped up with the existence of capitalism, but argues that what we need is an entirely new kind of capitalism: variously called "sustainable capitalism," "green capitalism," "natural capitalism," and "climate capitalism" by thinkers as various as Al Gore, Paul Hawken, Amory and L ...
  6. link.springer.com

    This book analyses contemporary and future conditions of global finance and capitalism in an age of catastrophe. It illuminates the links between various crises that have beset the world economy in recent decades and sets these in philosophical context, drawing on the work of Marx, Bataille and Baudrillard to forge new understandings of the impact of capitalist hegemony on society and nature.
  7. popularresistance.org

    Unlike capitalist realism, capitalist catastrophism is not a coherent social formation but rather the unmaking of one. It is the unraveling of capitalist realism that the " catastrophic convergence ," to borrow Christian Parenti's phrase, of climate breakdown, a global pandemic, and the persistent violence wrought by capital on the poor ...
  8. commonplace.doubleloop.net

    Capitalist catastrophism is a mutation of capitalist realism. Unless there is a radical break from capitalism — a revolution — what will supplant capitalist realism is not the ability to imagine and fight for a post-capitalist future as Mason, Uetricht and Milburn had hoped, but something more ambiguous and perhaps ultimately worse. ...
  9. commentary.org

    By contrast, it is the developing world where economic centralization is far more robust than in the capitalist West that produces most of the world's carbon emissions.What's more, the Communist world of the 20th century was the site of the worst pollution-control regimes and longest-lived environmental catastrophes.The correlation between a command economy in a centralized police state ...
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