In each other we trust: coining alternatives to capitalism | ROAR Magazine

In each other we trust: coining alternatives to capitalism | ROAR Magazine:

 

 Beyond the state, it's money that rules. Can we still imagine ways to
break the stranglehold of global finance on our lives and coin
alternatives for the common good? To do so, we will first have to regain
each other's trust, redefine the concept of value, and rekindle the
post-capitalist imagination.

 

One doesn’t need to subscribe to Gilles Deleuze’s somewhat obscurantist post-structuralism to recognize that the French philosopher made at least two extremely prescient observations. First, his hypothesis in the early 1990s that Foucault’s disciplinary society, with its schools, prisons and mental asylums, had ceased to be the paradigmatic mode of governmentality under neoliberalism and was instead giving way to a nascent “state of control.” And second, his related observation that in this emerging control society the money-form assumes renewed centrality within the reproduction of capitalist power relations. “Beyond the state,” Deleuze wrote, “it’s money that rules, money that communicates, and what we need these days isn’t a critique of Marxism, but a modern theory of money as good as Marx’s that goes on from where he left off.”

 

Beyond God and state, it’s money
that rules. Can we still imagine alternatives? And what role will
recent innovations like Bitcoin play in the struggle?