The

The Hello and behind the news. My name is Doug Henwood.

The semi-riguously enforced two

guests in two segments format prevails once again today. A break, though, from all the dispiriting

news of genocidal war and insipient fascism, some ideas for a post-capitalist future from

Aaron Beninoff and live possibilities in the present, the cooperative form, outlined by Jerome

Nikolai Warren.

We'll return to the gloomscape soon, but I need a rest. Many of us on the left, and I certainly

number myself among them, are more comfortable standing back and fetching instead of constructively

thinking about a better future. Both my guests today are doing the constructive thing,

and I'm importing some optimism from them.

First, Aaron Beninoff, who has the first of a two-part look at a post-capitalist future in the May

June issue of New Left Review. The subtitle, groundwork for a multi-critarial economy, doesn't

exactly flow off the tongue, but what he's saying with it is incontrovertible. Any future economic system,

any utopia we're working towards in the present, has to meet a lot of needs. Among them,

material welfare, ecological sustainability, and support for human flourishing. Capitalism does none

of these things and often undermines them. One of the crucial issues for any transformative

politics is

rethinking investment, that is, the decisions that shape the physical infrastructure society,

the apparatus of production and distribution. Some of that is done by the public sector in

capitalist society, transportation, schools, R&D, but most of it is done by a relative handful of

people motivated by profit,

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