COVID-19 and the Future of Capitalism

COVID-19 may be an historical turning point for global capitalism. It has revealed the crisis of neoliberal globalization; however, this does not automatically lead to the ultimate defeat of capitalism or its neoliberal incarnation. The authors in this collection posit that a new framework cannot be built on the values and beliefs of current-day consumer capitalist society; resistance in the pandemic age should be based on the values and beliefs that could be the foundation of a new, postcapitalist society. This book formulates a tentative revolutionary program that could take advantage of the COVID-19 environment to defeat and transcend capitalism.

The authors in this collection posit that a new framework cannot be built on the values and beliefs of current-day consumer capitalist society; resistance in the pandemic age should be based on the values and beliefs that could be the foundation of a new, postcapitalist society.

 Table of contents

COVID-19 in Historical Perspective

The Rise of Digital Capitalism: Challenges before and After COVID-19

Revisiting the Precariat in a Post-COVID-19 Context

Surveillance Capitalism and Social Protest Under Right-Wing Populism

Disaster Capitalism and Imperialist Aggression: The Case of US Sinophobia

Neoliberalism and Beyond: Is a Reformed Capitalism Possible?

Postcapitalist Horizons for the Post-COVID-19 World

Conclusion