At work, we're told to be diligent and disciplined; elsewhere, hedonistic and self-indulgent. We need a sustainable model What do we want to see emerge from the greatest crisis of capitalism for 70 years? If I had to answer in a single phrase, I would say: new models for a sustainable social market economy. This requires us to change as well as our states. Capitalism will not end in 2009 as c...

Capitalism is multinational and it runs governments. Governments do not run capitalism. They are expected to facilitate capitalist economic, social and cultural environments. A glance at the size of capitalist multinational institutions in comparison with nation states should make this clear even to the deluded. The Brown regime has not quite grasped this. Brown himself boasted of 'his' £500bn "s...

In the Independent, Margareta Pagano calls for a 'social capitalism' where workers take advantage of low share prices to buy equity and make the stock exchange more equitable (and support co-ops too):It is counter-intuitive but with the stock market at rock bottom, this is a great moment for the British worker to swap being a wage slave for owning shares through employee share schemes or...

What do we want to see emerge from the greatest crisis of capitalism for 70 years? If I had to answer in a single phrase, I would say: new models for a sustainable social market economy. This requires us to change as well as our states. That experiment in creating New Soviet Man worked so well,

  Call-out to join the Co-Mutiny Bristol September 12th – 20th, 2009 Social Change not Climate Change Capitalism and its puppet de‘mock’cracy are spiralling out of control: a self-created recession, rocketing unemployment, soaring national debt, the illegal and unjust occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, apathy towards massacres in Palestine and Sri Lanka, the criminalisation...

"The old ideologies positioned politics as a struggle for ownership, the historic battle between socialism and capitalism. The Third Way, by contrast, sees politics as an exercise in communitarianism: rebuilding the relationships and social capital between people. It aims to put the social back into social justice. This is an important strategy for combating individualism and generating a sense of...

Sure, lapdancing is one aspect of the commodification of heterosexuality under late capitalism, and something that would not arise in a genuinely liberated post-capitalist social formation. Ultimately, socialism will put paid to the Spearmint Rhinos of this world. Dave’s Part. The thought that men wishing to look at naked women will be erased by a change in

Eric Hobsbawm has written in the Guardian that, following communism’s failure in the last century, capitalism has now followed suit. So what’s still available, ideologically speaking? He states that social democracy as practised by the Blair and Brown administrations has run out of...

On Monday, Nick Clegg gave a speech on responsible capitalism. This was his first real foray into the debate since it has erupted as a major talking point, even though we as a party have been arguing the need to reform capitalism before it was cool. Before criticising capitalism, he praised it by saying this:

In a recent debate at Kings College on the future of capitalism, Martin Wolf, one of the main proponents of global capitalism, and principal economic spokesperson for the City, argued that we can not easily change the nature of global wealth inequality, as people in the developed world would not be prepared to give up