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Postcapitalism: a signpost to the future or a utopian fantasy?
Channel 4’s economics editor Paul Mason speculates on an alternative to capitalism in his new book. Here two of our reviewers give their verdicts
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John Wight
ANY book Paul Mason writes deserves to be taken seriously. Sadly, though, his latest work Postcapitalism fails in its objective of charting a path towards a sustainable alternative to the status quo.
The weakness of the book might be better understood by a simple amendment of the title from Postcapitalism to Postideology. For in truth this is what Mason is arguing. He deploys in the process a mish-mash of both Marxist and anti-Marxist arguments, along with counter-historical and non-materialist idealism, to justify abandoning the importance of class as the fulcrum of capitalism and the crucial role it has and must continue to play in the struggle to replace it.
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