Building an exit from capitalism
A boring, decades-long plan for getting out of capitalism without burning the village down The two stories most often told about how to get past capitalism both fail in roughly the same way. The first is a Big Bang: revolutionary seizure of state power, redesign from above. The historical track record is grim. New rulers inherit the same coordination problems, the same resource constraints, and the same external threats, and tend to respond the way besieged regimes generally do, which involves rather more centralised violence than was originally promised. ...