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The Anti-Capitalist Transition
David Harvey on the future of capitalism has this to say on communism and the anti-capitalist transition:
Communists, Marx and Engels averred in their original conception laid out in The Communist Manifesto, have no political party. They simply constitute themselves at all times and in all places as those who understand the limits, failings, and destructive tendencies of the capitalist order as well as the innumerable ideological masks and false legitimations that capitalists and their apologists (particularly in the media) produce in order to perpetuate their singular class power. Communists are all those who work incessantly to produce a different future to that which capitalism portends.
The Enigma of Capital
Richard Seymour at Lenin’s Tomb has a nice summary of a recent talk given by David Harvey on the limits of capital that’s worth checking out (it’s a continuation of Harvey’s argument that there ought to be a practical alternative to the necessary 3% compound annual growth rate that capitalism requires to satiate/sustain itself—a so-called “zero growth economy.”)