Talk:Post-capitalism
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[edit] Expanded Artical
Post-capitalism or postcapitalism is a hypothetical future economic system "in which economy is so radically changed as to be no longer unambiguously be called capitalism by our current definition."
The difference between the post-capitalism and other hypothetical economic systems is that a post-capitalist economy was once a capitalist economy. It could be a result of making many smaller but profound changes to a capitalist economy. At what point does a capitalist economy become post capitalist economy is unknown. It is possible that both capitalism and post-capitalism could continue to exist. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.92.74.222 (talk) 04:12, 15 April 2007 (UTC).
[edit] A modest proposal
This article strikes me as kind of wrong-headed; it appears to be about one concept, "post-capitalism," but in fact is a list of widely divergent proposed alternatives to capitalism, none of which AFAIK call themselves "post-capitalism." Meanwhile, there is an academic use of the term "post-capitalism," which is refered to in some of the links in the article, but which isn't discussed in the article at all. In this usage, "post-capitalism" is roughly a synonym for post-industrial.
So, a proposal. How about we rename this article "Alternatives to capitalism," establishing mutual links between this article and anti-capitalism, and redirect "Post-capitalism" to "post-industrial."
Thoughts?
- Not so sure that equates to post industrial... I do not think so though, as to the above. In the mean time I have added some energy economics related material. Mostly this relates to energy accounting as a well known alternative to a money or capital system. This was a broad social movement in the early 20th century, and becoming more known again now. skip sievert (talk) 01:18, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
