Extra-capitalist impulses in the midst of the crisis: perspectives and positions outside of capitalism. Issue 4 (7th June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bailey, David J.
• Is Part Of: Globalizations. Volume 16:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 371
• Page End: 385
• Publication Date: 2019-06-07
• Subjects: Capitalism -- anti-capitalism -- solidarity -- crisis -- resistance; Globalization -- Periodicals; 327.17
• DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2018.1558816
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1474-7731

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article introduces the current special issue, Extra-capitalist impulses in the midst of the crisis . Those seeking alternatives to capitalism, and egalitarian social change more generally, face a chronic undecidability. In this context, the special issue considers episodes of what we term, extra-capitalism. By this, we mean those instances, examples, strategies, tactics, experiments, programmes, moments, ruptures and revolutions that have sought to find a way either to challenge or to move outside of capitalism. The article highlights three key dimensions of difference that tend to face those seeking alternatives to capitalism: on the question of scale; regarding the attitude towards institutions of authority, and especially the state; and over the mode of internal organization. Each of the articles of the special issue connect with these questions, and the way in which we might learn from episodes of extra-capitalism, both historically and in the present.