Comments on: The Death of Capitalism https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-death-of-capitalism/2016/03/18 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:00:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Øyvind Holmstad https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-death-of-capitalism/2016/03/18/comment-page-1#comment-1563313 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:00:16 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=54658#comment-1563313 You should add Rising Debt and a More Complex society: https://ourfiniteworld.com/2016/03/17/our-economic-growth-system-is-reaching-limits-in-a-strange-way/

]]> By: Ian https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-death-of-capitalism/2016/03/18/comment-page-1#comment-1563276 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 04:43:22 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=54658#comment-1563276 Coincidentally, the second article in the series was “what is Capitalism”. I believe p2p is going to publish it, so I won’t link to it from here.

There’s a lot of confusion about what capitalism is, and there’s also confusion about the fact that that there are different varieties of capitalism, just as there were many different types of agricultural states, some of which fell under broad categories like princedoms/empires/republics and even tribal societies.

The mode of production has certain requirements, within that there are usually multiple political-economic models, and within those there are sub-varieties.

So, within industrialization there are a few strategies; of which capitalism is one. Within capitalism there are varieties as well: mercantalism is not the same as post-war liberalism, which is not the same as neo-liberalism, which is not the same as the imperialist “free trade” regime of, say, the British in the 19th century.

In any case, some of this is covered in the next article, though not all. Finally, pre-industrial societies have has parts of their societies which were largest capitalist, BUT they were rarely the majority of the society except in the case of some city-states.

]]> By: matthew slater https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-death-of-capitalism/2016/03/18/comment-page-1#comment-1561943 Sat, 19 Mar 2016 07:34:30 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=54658#comment-1561943 I don’t understand when people talk about capitalism as this ‘thing’ which ‘we’ choose. Almost nobody today is arguing in favour of capitalism, at least not the kind of capitalism we have. Yet almost everybody seems to be ‘doing’ capitalism, whatever that means.
So without identifying just who it is who is choosing capitalism or even what capitalism is, I don’t see how you can argue that they are making the wrong decision and that other decisions are really open to them.

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