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The workers' movement has long agitated for workers control, co-operatives and new forms of communal living and working. In Paul Mason's new book ... 
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Nothing better illustrates capitalism’s addiction to illogic than the mismatch between Twitter’s workability and its unpopularity with Wall Street
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In his new book, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, Mason predicts that we're due a new economic system, one birthed by the "smartphone generation."
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Was Marx's "Fragment of Machines" a prophecy coming true? Niki Seth-Smith reviews Paul Mason's "Postcapitalism".
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Jeremy Corbyn wants to print money to invest in the UK. He's calling it "People's Quantitative Easing". Rivals like Yvette Cooper say he's talking nonsense b...
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At last, we have foresighted discussions about the end of capitalism in leading economic magazines! This is so exciting. Paul Mason published an article, the 17th of July, with exactly the title The end of capitalism has begun.
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Extract from Paul Mason on BBC NewsHour on the end of capitalism and the sharing economy. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02xrvd9.
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Post-capitalism is coming, but a new and even more disruptive tradition of organizing will have to clear the way first.
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The central weakness of Mason’s analysis is his failure to take account of the inevitable resistance of the ruling class and their state to his project. Rather than contemplating the future, we’ll have to fight for it. No surprise there. A future without capitalism is well worth fighting for, but ‘networked individuals’ will only achieve their freedom along with the socialist transformation of society.
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There is though a flaw in in his explanation of what could be called Classical Quantitative Easing, yes, the money did flow to the banks, yes, it did then flow into the stock market, into commodities like gold, but it did not trickle down into the real economy. The only beneficiaries were the rich who got richer and the bankers with bigger bonuses.
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An outspoken, straight-talking journalist and broadcaster, Paul Mason is a timely and relevant voice at The Long Progress Bar this September.
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The sharing economy could bring about the end of capitalism: that’s the provocative claim made by economic journalist Paul Mason, among others. But my ongoing research indicates that there are many possible futures for the sharing economy: it could transform the world of work as we know it – or it could gradually fade from the public eye.
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A video presentation in the Guardian, related to the key message of his new book on Post-Capitalism: “The neoliberalist capitalist model has resulted in civil wars and economic disaster, and it’s only going to get worse. Unless, Paul Mason argues, we take advantage of the technological revolution we are living through and create a postcapitalist …
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In the wake of the financial crisis and with the rapid rise of new technologies, award-winning economist and journalist, Paul Mason, believes we are on the cusp ...
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Could technology drive us to a post-capitalist future? Journalist Paul Mason thinks so.
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