Our contemporary world is plagued by a deep crisis that threatens
the survival of our species and the planet. In the midst of this
dire situation, we are being misled to believe by transnational
corporations, governments, mainstream media networks and spin
doctors that neoliberal capitalism has all the answers and can
overcome any crisis. But can more of the same and a blind faith in
capitalism save our world? Many are not convinced and there is a
crucial awakening taking place. The rise of transnational activism,
the World Social Forum, the Arab Spring, Occupy, the Climate
Justice Movement and a post-neoliberal left affirm the need for
alternatives to global neoliberal capitalism. A crucial idea and
practice emerging from this ferment is the solidarity economy
alternative. This book brings together contributions from leading
thinkers and practitioners supporting the solidarity economy
alternative in South Africa, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Italy and
the United States. For the first time there is an attempt to
clarify, rather than codify, meanings of the solidarity economy,
emphasise crucial theoretical concepts at work in the emergent
solidarity economy, and highlight situated movement-building
experiences and ways in which the anti-capitalist logic of the
solidarity economy can be constituted from below. This book is for
anyone concerned about democracy, transformative politics and
emancipatory utopian alternatives. 'The Solidarity Economy
Alternative propagates the radical impulse of democracy from below
while affirming ethical values and principles like social justice.
This book is an excellent guide to this powerful idea and an
invaluable resource for activists in South Africa and beyond.'
Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, patron of the Democracy from Below
Campaign, South Africa, and former deputy Minister of Defence and
Minister of Health 'A brilliant, contemporary effort to
reconstruct, on a new basis, the transformative anti-capitalist
vision. It is an immensely valuable, empirically grounded
contribution to a fundamentally important debate.' Peter Evans,
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California,
Berkeley, author of Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial
Transformation Vishwas Satgar is a senior lecturer in international
relations at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a political
activist and chairs the board of the Cooperative and Policy
Alternative Centre.
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