READING LIST
This page provides links to a selection of articles and books that may be useful to anyone wanting to learn more about postcapitalism. And with the time/money/desire to save the print publishing industry. Because someone probably should.
FREE ARTICLES // THE BASICS
What is postcapitalism?
by John Weeks
Brave New Europe
End notes: The long history of forecasting capitalism’s demise
by Daniel Luban
The Nation
Time’s up for capitalism. But what comes next?
by Astra Taylor
The Nation
Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes it all down with us
by George Monbiot
The Guardian
Neofeudalism: The end of capitalism?
by Jodi Dean
LA Review of Books
Can we have prosperity without growth?
by John Cassidy
The New Yorker
“Africapitalism” and the limits of any variant of capitalism
by Stefan Ouma
The Elephant
Why the phrase ‘late capitalism’ is suddenly everywhere
by Annie Lowrey
The Atlantic
FREE ARTICLES // WHAT NEXT?
After capitalism, what comes next? For a start, ethics
by Jenny Cameron et al. The Conversation
Capitalism isn’t working. Here’s an alternative
by Yanis Varoufakis
The Guardian
What comes after the end of history?
by James Marriott
New Statesman
The world after capitalism
by Bhaskar Sunkara
Foreign Policy
How to build a post-capitalist world
by Kfir Cohen Lustig et al.
Haaretz
Post-capitalism: Life within environmental limits
by Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson
Pursuit
FREE ARTICLES // EXAMPLES
Postcapitalism and the city
by Paul Mason
Medium
Meet the L.A. man building an escape pod from capitalism
by Sophia Kercher
Los Angeleno
The founders of Means TV on their post-capitalist streaming service
by Dan Caccavaro
Hour Detroit
Post-capitalist entrepreneurship
by Boyd Cohen
Evonomics
BrewDog’s open-source revolution is at the vanguard of postcapitalism
by Paul Mason
The Guardian
Blockchains: building blocks of a post-capitalist future?
by Hannes Gerhardt
ROAR
BOOKS //
Clear Bright Future: A radical defence of the human being
by Paul Mason
Penguin
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a world without work
by Nick Srineck & Alex Williams
Verso
Four Futures: Life after capitalism
by Peter Frase
Verso
A Postcapitalist Politics
by J.K. Gibson-Graham
University of Minnesota Press
Democratic Economic Planning
by Robin Hahnel
Routledge
The Problem with Work
by Kathi Weeks
Duke University
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
by Aaron Bastani
Verso, 2019
Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
by Mark Fisher
Zer0 Publishing
Utopia for Realists: How we can build the ideal world
by Rutger Bregman
Little, Brown and Company
Another Now
by Yanis Varoufakis
Badley Head
The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the making of American capitalism
by Edward E. Baptist
Basic Books
Capitalism and Desire: The psychic cost of free markets
by Todd McGowan
Columbia University Press
Art and Postcapitalism
by Dave Beech
Pluto Books
After Capitalism
by David Schweickart
Rowman & Littlefield
ACADEMIC JOURNALS // SPECIAL ISSUES
ACADEMIC JOURNALS // FREE PAPERS
COVID-19: Capitalist and postcapitalist perspectives
by Anitra Nelson
Human Geography
Post-capitalism, post-growth, post-consumerism? Eco-political hopes beyond sustainability
by Ingolfur Blühdorn
Global Discourse
The Challenge of Building a Scalable Postcapitalist Commons: The Limits of FairCoin as a Commons‐Based Cryptocurrency
by Sam Dallyn and Fabian Frenzel
Antipode
Digital socialism or knowledge capitalism?
by Michael A. Peters
Educational Philosophy and Theory
Degrowth and postcapitalism: Transformative geographies beyond accumulation and growth
by Benedikt Schmid
Geography Compass
Education and the concept of commons. A pedagogical reinterpretation
by Morten Timmermann Korsgaard
Educational Philosophy and Theory
All That Is Holy: The Role of Religion in Postcapitalist Communities
by Jon Wittrock
Rethinking Marxism
Cosmolocalism: Understanding the Transitional Dynamics Towards Post-Capitalism
by Alexandros Schismenos
Communication, Capitalism & Critique
Planetary Food Commons and Postcapitalist Post-COVID Food Futures
by Stephen Healy et al.
Local/Global Encounters
Degrowth and postcapitalism: Transformative geographies beyond accumulation and growth
by Benedikt Schmid
Geography Compass
Critiquing a Utopian idea of Sustainable Consumption: A Post-Capitalism Perspective
by Janine Dermody et al.
Journal of Macromarketing
Countering corporate violence: Degrowth, ecosocialism and organising beyond the destructive forces of capitalism
by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Alexander Paulsson
Organization