Beyond Money

Anitra Nelson

Description

'A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money' - Harry Cleaver

What would a world without money look like? This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power, environmental destruction and social inequality today, arguing that it has to be abolished rather than repurposed to achieve a postcapitalist future.

Grounded in historical debates about money, Anitra Nelson draws on a spectrum of political and economic thought and activism, including feminism, ecoanarchism, degrowth, permaculture, autonomism, Marxism and ecosocialism. Looking to Indigenous rights activism and the defence of commons, an international network of activists engaged in a fight for a money-free society emerges.

Beyond Money shows that, by organising around post-money versions of the future, activists have a hope of creating a world that embodies their radical values and visions.

List of Abbreviations and Symbols

Glossary

Foreword by John Holloway

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Capital and Crises

2. Money: The Universal Equivalent

3. Yenomon: Commoning

4. System Change, Not Climate Change

5. Women’s Liberation: Equality and Values

6. Technology and the Real Debt Cycle

7. Indigenous Peoples, Real Values and the Community Mode of Production

8. Occupy the World!

Notes

Annotated Select Reading List and Links

Index

Sujets

• Environmental Policy
• Economic Policy
• Public Policy
• Political Advocacy
• Political Process
• Human Geography
• Social Science
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Monetary economics
• Green politics
• Ideology
• Environmental economics
• Political economy
• Activism

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 janvier 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786807816
• Langue: English

Extrait

Beyond Money
Outstanding ... a highly original and incisive analysis of the crippling role that money plays in today s global capitalist world.
-Mike Berry, author of Justice and Democracy
A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money.
-Harry Cleaver, author of 33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically
A book for our time. Anitra Nelson takes us from theory to praxis in clear steps. Nelson s turn towards a materialist ecofeminist analysis is pure joy.
-Ariel Salleh, editor of Eco-Sufficiency Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology
Takes monetised economies head-on, demonstrating how they exacerbate ecological devastation and socio-economic inequality, and provides examples and pathways towards non-monetary economies based on real values. Does a great service to movements seeking social and ecological justice for all humans and other life forms.
-Ashish Kothari, founder of Kalpavriksh and co-editor of Pluriverse
Challenges and inspires - a spur to action.
-Helena Norberg-Hodge, author of Ancient Futures and winner of the Alternative Nobel prize
It is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of money. Anitra Nelson s book challenges us to think what viable postcapitalisms without money could look like.
-Professor Giorgos Kallis, University of Barcelona
If you had to choose one book to read on making the next political economy it should be this one. It will have you bristling with political energy.
-Professor Adam David Morton, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
An accessible and important book. If you want an alternative to economic and environmental disasters, you need to engage with her arguments.
-Jeff Sparrow, writer, editor and broadcaster
A passionate critique of money as the root cause of our many problems, presenting a clear vision of what life without money could look like. Inspiring.
-Matthias Schmelzer, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and author of The Hegemony of Growth and The Future is Degrowth
With a compelling narrative, Nelson lays out the unavoidable question of today s anti-capitalist, ecological politics - the question of money. Grounded in long-term political experience, her answer is at once elaborate and unequivocal: a wonderful tool for radical imagination and praxis.
-Stefania Barca, author of Forces of Reproduction and Workers of the Earth
An exciting, original book that, in exploring the ritual structure of assets, capital, money and profit, helps open a way for more powerful, creative resistance.
-Larry Lohmann, founding member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice
Can capitalism be overcome without challenging money? In this thoughtprovoking book, Anitra Nelson argues that moving beyond money is necessary for addressing inequalities and environmental unsustainability and shows what a non-monetary postcapitalist world might look like.
-Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, researcher in degrowth and critical organisation studies, Lund University
Alternatives to capitalism, price-making markets and monetary values are essential for social-ecological transformation. Going well beyond typical economic discourse she opens the door of human potentiality to a different way of life.
-Clive L. Spash, Professor of Public Policy and Governance at WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Beyond Money
A Postcapitalist Strategy
Anitra Nelson
Foreword by John Holloway
First published 2022 by Pluto Press
New Wing, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
www.plutobooks.com
Copyright Anitra Nelson 2022
The right of Anitra Nelson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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Contents
List of Abbreviations and Symbols
Glossary
Foreword by John Holloway
Preface
Acknowledgements

1 Capital and Crises
2 Money: The Universal Equivalent
3 Yenomon: Commoning
4 System Change, Not Climate Change
5 Women s Liberation: Equality and Values
6 Technology and the Real Debt Cycle
7 Indigenous Peoples, Real Values and the Community Mode of Production
8 Occupy the World!

Notes
Annotated Select Reading List and Links
Index
List of Abbreviations and Symbols
C
Degree/s Celsius
A$
Australian dollar/s
ACT
Australian Capital Territory
BBC
British Broadcasting Corporation
BCE
Before the common era
CES
Community Exchange System
CIC
Cooperativa Integral Catalana (Catalan Integral Cooperative)
CNT
Confederaci n Nacional del Trabajo (Spain) (National Confederation of Labour)
ETS
Emissions Trading System
EZLN
Ej rcito Zapatista de Liberaci n Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation)
FaDA
Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization
FILAC
Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean
IASC
International Association for the Study of the Commons
IFAD
International Fund for Agricultural Development
IUCN
International Union for Conservation of Nature
LETS
Local (or labour) exchange trading system, or local energy transfer system
M
Money
M
Money plus monetary increment, or profit ( )
MDB
Murray-Darling Basin
MMT
Modern monetary theory
NACLA
North American Congress on Latin America
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement
NEF
New Economics Foundation
NRM
Natural resource management
NYDF
New York Declaration on Forests
OECD
Organisation for Co-operation and Development
P2P
Peer-to-peer
REDD+
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (incorporating conservation, sustainable forest management and improving developing countries stocks of forest carbon)
SITA
Subsistence is the alternative
SUV
Sports utility (or special use ) vehicle
TINA
There is no alternative
UGT
Uni n General de Trabajadores (Spain) (General Union of Workers)
WFP
World Food Programme
WHO
World Health Organization
XR
Extinction Rebellion (movement)
ZAD/Zad
Zone D fendre (France) - deferred development area
Glossary
Carbon emissions : a somewhat misleading but standard shorthand that stands not only for carbon dioxide but also five other major greenhouse gases - methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride.
Collective sufficiency : self-provisioning performed collectively, co-governing, working together or as delegated, and sharing the total output on the basis of various needs.
Commodity : a good or service created to sell; a result of production for trade.
Commoning : practices of shared use, benefit, responsibility and co-governance.
Community mode of production : the essential characteristic of postcapitalism whereby community-oriented commoning and production based on real values enable everyone s needs to be met - including needs for healing and conviviality - while sustainably using Earth and sensitively caring for Earth, including regeneration.
Compact : a nonmonetary arrangement to exchange made between, say neighbouring communities.
Earth : a sense of nature integrating human and nonhuman nature.
Ecotat : truncation of eco-habitats - peculiarly appropriate environs for human communities in that the local ecosystem is substantively capable of meeting their needs and they, in a mutual way, are able to care for its needs.
Ecotone : a region of transition, that is both integrative and distinctive, between two ecological communities.
Ejidos (Mexico): lands that operate via communal (or individual) use rights with potential for collective forms of self-provisioning and co-governance.
Exchange value : refers to an abstract general societal relationship, and practical processes of exchange, wherein money represents future worth to be redeemed via the market.
Gift economy : nonmonetary modes or forms of production and exchange, characterised in various ways by different theorists, and of particular interest to anthropologists, i.e. in economic anthropology.
Good : a material object potentially offering a benefit for someone or something.
Horizontalism, horizontalist relations and organisation : mutually respectful, non-hierarchical relations; sharing power as in power-with and based in skills and knowledge sharing; assemblies, networks and self-organising working groups with accountability and transparency in activities and relations.
Late stage capitalism : the final stage of capitalism within which we now live.
Real values : actual and potential diverse values of living things, plant, animal and rock in landscapes and the atmosphere relevant to actual and holistic human and ecological needs.
Real value studies : investigations focusing on actual and potential real values in the context of likely and optimum social and ecological outcomes (totally distinct from exchange value).
Real valuism : arguments and theories pertaining to nonmonetary economies based on real values.
Real valuist : as a noun, a supporter and/or advocate of nonmonetary economies based on real values; as an adjective, associated with nonmonetary economies based on real values.
Rentier : one who derives income from investments, including property.
Service : an act aiming to produce a benefit for someone or something.
Trade : exchange using money; monetary exchange.
Universal equivalent : the es