The Entropy of Capitalism

Biel, Robert

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“…which imperialism fully inherited. Elsewhere (Biel, 2012), I have explored the notion of 'exterminism', a term coined by E.P. Thompson (Thompson, 1980) and developed in an interesting way by Mark Jones (Jones, 2001).…”

Section: The 'Green Revolution' In the Structural Logic Of Imperialismmentioning

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“…In the absence of political radicalism, the 'new paradigm' might indeed be mere window-dressing for a new episode in the history of capitalism's super-exploitation of households and small producers. This is especially likely because, in its most recent phase, capitalism has indeed adapted to embrace principles of self-organisation and complexity, at least up to a point (Biel, 2012). With industrial value-chains, the whole issue is that these function not by destroying small producers -or even some elements of self-organisation amongst them, as in industrial clustering -but rather by corralling them into voluntary slavery.…”

Section: Resisting the Co-optation Of Small Farmers In A New Regime Omentioning

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“…The key quest of such transformations is how to build human well-being with minimal ecological costs. Many doubt that capitalism is able to adaptively accomplish these twin goals (Biel 2012).…”

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‘Changing the System’: Compensatory versus Transformative Social Entrepreneurship

Newey

2017

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

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ABSTRACT'Changing the system' has long been a part of definitions of social entrepreneurship (SE). This paper focuses on capitalism as a global socioeconomic system and understanding the role of SE in relation to this system. A distinction between two types of SE activity is introduced: compensatory and transformative. Compensatory SE compensates for market failures within the global capitalist system. By contrast, transformative SE specifically seeks to change the system of global capitalism. Using the examples of the alterglobalization movement and transition towns, the paper advances a conceptualization of transformative SE which contrasts assumptions with compensatory SE. This distinction aids to make the field of SE more truly global, multidisciplinary, representative and emancipatory.

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“…Altvater 1991Altvater , 1992Altvater , 2005Altvater , 2011Biel 2012). The task of using terms and ideas without sharing premises or conclusions, however, is a hard and often risky one.…”

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“…(Altvater 2011, unpaginated) 46 The use of the word 'entropy' in the above quote is not a matter of chance. Altvater belongs to a group of more or less illustrious Marxists (see also Foster 2000 andBiel 2012) who have flirted with Georgescu-Roegen's ideas. The following passage is representative of Altvater's recent body of work (see also Altvater 1991Altvater , 1992Altvater , 2005: 'In the terms of thermodynamic economics the transition to capitalist industrial systems based on fossil fuels means that the planet Earth first is "globalised" and secondly treated like a closed system because the solar energy over millions of years stocked into the oil-fields and coal-mines is substituted for the solar radiation of the present.…”

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From the ‘right to the city’ to the right to the planet

Souza¹

2015

City

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City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, actionPublication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information:The debate on emancipatory socio-spatial change can be by no means only a matter of 'right to the city' 2 not even within the framework of the Lefebvrian concept of 'the urban' (l'urbain), whose scope is wider than is usual. I believe this implies meeting the challenges of reflecting deeper and with more sophistication on how to practically overcome the following aspects of reality: 1) the state apparatus and statism (be it properly capitalist or 'socialist') as well as the institution called 'political party' and all hierarchical, bureaucratic and vertical modes of collective organisation; 2) the technological matrix and the spatiality inherited from capitalism; 3) the capitalist ideology of 'economic development' (somewhat shared, albeit in a distinct and recontextualised way, by typical Marxism with its economism and productivism), full of economistic, Eurocentric, teleological and rationalist presuppositions. At the end of the day, what is at stake is the right to the planet, which requires rethinking a number of issues regarding spatial organisation (pointing out the necessary, radical economic-spatial deconcentration and territorial decentralisation, but without degenerating into parochial localism and self-insulating economic processes), the social division of labour, exploitation and alienation (in the context of which the trends of deterioration and regression such as labour precarisation and 'hyperprecarisation' should be highlighted), ethnocentrism (in this regard its renewed facets relating to xenophobia, nationalism and racism must be vehemently denounced), the various types of oppression (class, gender, etc.) and heteronomy in general -all this ultimately examined and judged on the basis of autonomy in the strong sense as the crucial parameter of analysis and evaluation.

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The Entropy of Capitalism

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