Green Liberty in solidarity with Mattei’s analysis and orientation and call to build a post-capitalist society informed by egalitarian values.
Green Liberty is in solidarity with Clara Mattei’s argument that we can “escape capitalism” and initiate the social / political, economic, and ecological transformation of society. She is practicing what she preaches with local action where she lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Clara argues for local democracies and the establishment of assemblies of egalitarians.
In our escape from capitalism, we should consider that we are building a post-capitalist society, a society that is intentional around repairing nature, taming technology, removing the rich from power, and building a society that is good for all, human and nature.
Clara Mattei is an economist who wants us to rethink the idea that capitalism is simply the natural order of things. She is an author and professor of economics whose work explores how economic ideas become tools of power, shaping policy while masking the political decisions beneath. Her new book, Escape from Capitalism, argues that many of the problems that we see as inevitable – poverty, unemployment, inflation – are built into the system and shored up by models and theories designed to convince us that there is no alternative. On this episode of Ways to Change the World, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Mattei about whether there is an alternative to capitalism.
