Beyond the Profits System: Possibilities for the Post-Capitalist Era

Since 2008, we have found ourselves confronted by an historic financial holocaust that world leaders have struggled to come to terms with. As explained by Harry Shutt - who was almost alone in foreseeing such a disaster a decade before it happened - their continued denial stems from a vested interest in maintaining a capitalist profits system which is by now as outmoded as feudalism was two hundred years ago.

Beyond the Profits System makes clear why the desperate resort of Western governments to ‘extraordinary measures’ to try to avert economic collapse is bound to fail. It also forcefully demonstrates why we must abandon the traditional economic logic of endlessly expanding production in pursuit of maximum private profit. Rather, our only hope of salvation lies in cooperatively responding to the aspirations of different communities while assuring the basic security of all.