The Coming Revolution

Capitalism is dying. What will replace it in the Coming Revolution? Without growth, capitalism will collapse. Automation and globalized production are radically reducing the need for labor. Massive debt loads are mortgaging the future for current needs. Natural disasters and wars are the only way to......more

Tracing developments and revolutions through time, author Ben Reynolds shows he has done his citational homework. I recommended book to pair with Kuhn’s work on paradigms.......more

Capitalist modernity is an unprecedented form of social organization. Challenges that would have been an existential threat to past social orders are an essential part of the capitalist order. Capitalism thrives on crisis and overcoming. If there is a social order after capitalism, it will not be a......more

The Coming Revolution: Capitalism in the 21st Century by Ben Reynolds is the prediction of the fall of capitalism by its own means. Reynolds is an author and activist based until recently in New York City. His essays, articles, and commentary have appeared in ROAR Magazine, CounterPunch, Center for......more

Said it would get more into Zapatista governance but didn’t. Lot of stuff about automation.......more