Strategic Logics of Anti-Capitalism: Transforming Economic Systems

Is it possible to strategize for transcending capitalism's core structures? Learn about the goals, approaches, and challenges of anti-capitalist movements in the 21st century from Erik Olin Wright's talk at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

• Anti-Capitalism
• Economic Systems
• Transformation
• Strategy
• Erik Olin Wright

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1. How to be an anticapitalist for the 21stcentury Erik Olin Wright University of Wisconsin Madison April 2017

2. THECENTRALQUESTION Is it possible to have a viable strategy for transforming and transcending the fundamental structures of capitalism as an economic system?

3. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Escaping Capitalism Eroding capitalism

4. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Escaping Capitalism Eroding capitalism

5. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Escaping Capitalism Eroding capitalism

6. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Escaping Capitalism Eroding capitalism

7. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Escaping Capitalism Eroding capitalism

8. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Resisting Capitalism Eroding capitalism

9. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Resisting Capitalism Escaping capitalism

10. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Resisting Capitalism Escaping capitalism

11. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures Taming capitalism Social Democracy & Labor movement The state Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Resisting Capitalism Escaping capitalism

12. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Resisting Capitalism Social movements Escaping capitalism

13. Strategic logics of Anti-Capitalism Goal of Strategy Neutralizing harms Transcending structures The state Taming capitalism Smashing Capitalism Primary locus of strategy Civil Society Resisting Capitalism Escaping capitalism

14. Introduction Three additional issues to be resolved: 1. The destination: what is the alternative? 2. The theory of the state: Can a capitalist state contribute to eroding capitalism? 3. Agency: Who are collective agents for struggle?

15. Introduction 1. The Destination Socialism as radical, heterogeneous economic democracy: Replace a market-conforming democracy with a democracy-conforming market Expand and deepen the cooperative market economy, the social/solidarity economy, and the peer-to-peer collaborative economy Protect the commons and expand the array of publicly provided goods and services Democratize the corporation

16. Introduction 1. The Destination Socialism as radical, heterogeneous economic democracy: Replace a market-conforming democracy with a democracy-conforming market Expand and deepen the cooperative market economy, the social/solidarity economy, and the peer-to-peer collaborative economy Protect the commons and expand the array of publicly provided goods and services Democratize the corporation

17. Introduction 1. The Destination Socialism as radical, heterogeneous economic democracy: Replace a market-conforming democracy with a democracy-conforming market Expand and deepen the cooperative market economy, the social/solidarity economy, and the peer-to-peer collaborative economy Protect the commons and expand the array of publicly provided goods and services Democratize the corporation

18. Introduction 1. The Destination Socialism as radical, heterogeneous economic democracy: Replace a market-conforming democracy with a democracy-conforming market Expand and deepen the cooperative market economy, the social/solidarity economy, and the peer-to-peer collaborative economy Protect the commons and expand the array of publicly provided goods and services Democratize the corporation

19. Introduction 1. The Destination Socialism as radical, heterogeneous economic democracy: Replace a market-conforming democracy with a democracy-conforming market Expand and deepen the cooperative market economy, the social/solidarity economy, and the peer-to-peer collaborative economy Protect the commons and expand the array of publicly provided goods and services Democratize the corporation

20. Introduction 2. The Capitalist State Democratizing democracy to expand the limits of socialist relations within capitalism.

21. Introduction 3. Agency Constructing a democratic egalitarian coalition for multilayered collective action.

22. Introduction Thanks

23. Introduction

24. Introduction THE PROBLEM We live in a world in which capitalism generates enormous harms and yet to most people it seems like the only way of organizing a complex economic system.

25. FOUR TASKS 1. Normative foundations 2. Diagnosis and critique of capitalism 3. Alternatives 4. Transformation: how to get form here to there.