S03E29 - Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism

Nancy Fraser discusses her understanding of capitalism as an integrated social order and explores its implications for envisioning a desirable postcapitalism.

 

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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:

Democratic planning – an information website

https://www.democratic-planning.com/

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1

 

Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

https://www.indep.network/

Democratic Planning Research Platform:

https://www.planningresearch.net/

Democratic Planning Forum:

https://forum.democratic-planning.com/

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Shownotes

Remarque Institute

https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/remarque.html

Nancy Fraser at The New School for Social Research:

https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/nancy-fraser/

Fraser, N. (2023). Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism?srsltid=AfmBOopHZ8reXaCDUToeZsbdoTqnXb-wbejQdYin2J_bsa9tAu36oQCQ

Ivkovic, M., & Zaric, Z. (2024). Nancy Fraser and Politics. Edinburgh University Press.

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nancy-fraser-and-politics.html

Fraser, N., & Jaeggi, R. (2023). Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2867-capitalism

Fraser, N. (2022) Benjamin Lecture 3 – Class beyond Class (Video)

https://youtu.be/jf6laSf6Eko?si=iWL-Za4pPPwF0xvb

on social differentiation as discussed in sociology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation_(sociology)

Rodney, W. (2018). How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/788-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa?srsltid=AfmBOoqKZ6g4j8UpPJD6qC5yEmKuP0h6sFTvcEX5qjBF7CtPSzedUtcP

on Marx’s account of surplus value:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value

Robaszkiewicz, M. & Weinman, M. (2023) Hannah Arendt and Politics. Edinburgh University Press.

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hannah-arendt-and-politics.html

Vančura, M. (2011) Polanyi’s Great Transformation and the concept of the embedded economoy. IES Occasional Paper No. 2/2011

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/83289/1/668400315.pdf

Elson, D. (2015). Value: The Representation of Labour in Capitalism. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/159-value?srsltid=AfmBOooSko5DiXwMNN2NjSay4BP4n9cM-4y53r7G90VPbvE6itl5rxKT

Robertson, J. (2017) The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism. Jacobin.

https://jacobin.com/2017/07/yugoslav-socialism-tito-self-management-serbia-balkans

Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the web of life: Ecology and the accumulation of capital. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life

Patel, R., & Moore, J. W. (2018). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things?srsltid=AfmBOoqMnr0nAUfdHOxlQPTXsnGfQtMkDKgFtJsMQ3mtk7Jcyd3Wjqko

Brand, U., & Wissen, M. (2021). The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/916-the-imperial-mode-of-living?srsltid=AfmBOopUs15MsSgvJ7TRVfwmo330sHvjQIAST_UymD-90i3VIfCw6vg8

Bates, T. R. (1975) Gramsci and the Theory of Hegemony. Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 36 No. 2.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708933

Bois, W. E. B. Du. (1935). Black Reconstruction. An Essay toward a History of the Part which Black Folk played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. Harcourt, Brace and Company.

https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf

Trotsky, L. (1938) The Transitional Program. Bulletin of the Opposition.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/

Morris, W. (1890) News from Nowhere. Commonweal.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1890/nowhere/nowhere.htm

Hayek, F. A. von. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review, 35(4).

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/articles/hayek-use-knowledge-society.pdf

Schliesser, E. (2020) On Foucault on 17 January 1979 On the Market’s Role (as site) of Veridiction (III) Digressions & Impressions Blog.

https://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.com/digressionsimpressions/2020/06/on-foucault-on-17-january-1979-on-the-markets-role-as-site-of-veridiction-iii.html

Foucault, M. (2008). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège De France, 1978-1979. Palgrave Macmillan.

https://1000littlehammers.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/birth_of_biopolitics.pdf

Marx, K. (1973) Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. Penguin.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/grundrisse.pdf

on Bernard Mandeville and “Private Vice, Public Virtue”:

https://iep.utm.edu/mandevil/

Kaufmann, F. (1959) John Dewey’s Theory of Inquiry. The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 56, No. 21.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2022592

on Habermas:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/

on “Neurath’s boat”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurath%27s_boat

 

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