Why Historians Will End Capitalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6011349 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Welsh (0000-0002-7136-1001, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 100-130 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Utopian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-991X • E-ISSN: 2154-9648 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0100 |
| OpenAlex | W4386708098 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Though the prospect seems a million miles away, interest in the end of capitalism has been as longstanding as it is utopian, but do we really understand what we mean when we speak of the end of capitalism? Maybe we have things the wrong way round, and in our understandable preoccupation with the future we fail to appreciate how prospective ends often lie in the past. While the expression might refer to practices, experiences, and real social relations, capitalism is a conceptualization and as such is a synthetic product of the understanding. Between abstraction and the concrete, could the end of capitalism lurk somewhere in this activity? Might it be something we can experience but never know? Is our expectation of paradigmatic transformation counterproductive? Is there a role for utopias and utopianism in this, and if so what might that be
Aesthetics · Capitalism · Conceptualization · Economics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |