Erik Olin Wright: Transcending capitalism, SCORAI Colloquium on "Consumption and Social Change"

Erik Olin Wright presentation on Transcending capitalism through utopia.
The expansion of markets and pressures for endless growth in material consumption are not contingent features of a dynamic capitalist economy; they are intrinsic to an economy rooted in the competitive drive for profits and capital accumulation. Any serious effort to counteract systemic consumerism, therefore, must also attempt to transcend capitalism. Erik Orin Wright, Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, discusses how this is possible through envisioning real utopias. The Question and Answer session associated with this video can be found here: • Erik Olin Wright: Q&A ...

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Symbiosis Rev and Co-operation Jackson !!

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16:30 - not true, there are examples of Free Territory of Ukraine and Revolutionary Spain, two anarchist societies with multimillion population which had egalitarian, emancipatory, directly-democratic political and economic institution.

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zeleni sok and it collapsed due to nationalist attacks, an integral part to a socialist movement is international movement

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the first one was destroyed by the bolsheviks, the second one by the fascists and also bolsheviks..

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zeleni sok I'm unaware of the "Ukrainian free territories" like what does this even mean?
In regards to Catalonia, NO. The bolsheviks weren't responsible for its collapse, do your research.
How are you going to abolish the state before doing away with the material conditions that produce that states existence...