Beyond Capitalism: Machines, Work And Property

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This book offers a new perspective on the financialisation of the economy and its profound technological transformation in an increasingly interdependent and globalised world. A deterioration of capitalist property has led to the reactivation of pre-capitalist social phenomena such as slavery. Meanwhile secular deflation and international destruction of the social state have wrought havoc with all familiar modern welfare infrastructure. Yet, Sapelli argues, there is still hope in the form of the gradual evolution of a community-based socialism based on diverse forms of ownership, co-operative living and working, and sustainable capitalist property. Sapelli presents a severe and dramatic look at the present world, where there is still a light at the end of the tunnel. Preface......Page 6 Bibliography......Page 16 Contents......Page 17 Introduction to the Book by Giulio Sapelli......Page 18 Transformation of Global Capitalism, Deflation with Unemployment and Rhetoric Around Intergenerational Conflict......Page 23 Public Spending and Social Reproduction: Overturning the Rhetoric......Page 25 Transformation of Public Intervention in the Crisis in the US and Japan......Page 26 The European Exception to the Generational Narrative......Page 28 Deficit and Debt......Page 29 Low Growth, Demographics, Labour: Problems to Be Solved......Page 30 Social Reproduction Is Difficult......Page 31 European Growth Is Possible Only If the Public Debt Paradigm Changes......Page 32 Europe Is the Epicentre of Deflation and Power Imbalance......Page 33 France and Germany......Page 38 Neo-colonialism and Neo-imperialism......Page 40 New Areas of State: Between Leviathan and Behemoth......Page 51 Bibliography......Page 73 The Advent of Owner Capitalism: Ordoliberalism and New Technologies......Page 77 A New Kondratieff Cycle......Page 83 A Technology for Long-term Stagnation?......Page 86 Mechanics, Commodities, Labour......Page 97 Soul of the Capitalist Machinery......Page 103 Why Should We Research Workers and Employees Today?......Page 106 Disappearance of Trade Unions: Deinstitutionalised Capitalism?......Page 117 Bibliography......Page 124 Histories, Wars, Markets......Page 128 The Problem Is Ownership and Its Variable Forms......Page 131 Faith?......Page 147 Bibliography......Page 151 More on Allocation of Ownership......Page 153 Common Goods......Page 158 Bibliography......Page 164 Living Worlds … Communities?......Page 166 People: Our Strength......Page 169 Bibliography......Page 173 Adriano Olivetti and the Language of Hope......Page 176 Index......Page 192