Gunnar Rundgren Aug 31, 2024 READ

This is the third article in a series discussing the “curse of the straight line”, which is shorthand for the polycrisis of modernity and the industrial civilization. In the previous article, I discussed to what extent markets could save the industrial civilization. They can’t. Markets and capitalism are essential features of and drivers of the industrial civilization and they can’t be re-configured to counter their own imperatives. Or as Murray Bookchin phrased it “to quarrel with its very metabolism”.