Can Socialism Save the World?
Channel: A New Conversation
Date: 2020-05-06

This is the second half of the sixth part of our linked discussion on hegemony and populism. Part five looked at the co-evolutionary transition from feudalism to capitalism. The first half of this discussion looked at capitalism today as a platform for this current half which looks at the possible co-evolutionary transition from capitalism to barbarism, or the possible co-revolutionary transition to socialism. The discussion picks off where the previous one ended by hypothesising the possible eventualities for society with respect to social reproduction and care, and why its desperately important we halt the logic of capitalism before it annihilates society, and why socialism is the necessary alternative. The discussion then replicates this frame covering legal, institutional and governmental forms in the future; labour processes; philosophies; social relations; relations to nature; a brief exploration of the moral and technical critique of capitalism; and finally the technological and organisational forms of production,  exchange and consumption.