Anitra Nelson - Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy

Beyond Money

Outstanding ... a highly original and incisive analysis of the crippling role that money plays in todays global capitalist world.

Mike Berry, author of Justice and Democracy

A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money.

Harry Cleaver, author of 33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically

A book for our time. Anitra Nelson takes us from theory to praxis in clear steps. Nelsons turn towards a materialist ecofeminist analysis is pure joy.

Ariel Salleh, editor of Eco-Sufficiency & Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology

Takes monetised economies head-on, demonstrating how they exacerbate ecological devastation and socio-economic inequality, and provides examples and pathways towards non-monetary economies based on real values. Does a great service to movements seeking social and ecological justice for all humans and other life forms.

Ashish Kothari, founder of Kalpavriksh and co-editor of Pluriverse

Challenges and inspires a spur to action.

Helena Norberg-Hodge, author of Ancient Futures and winner of the Alternative Nobel prize

It is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of money. Anitra Nelsons book challenges us to think what viable postcapitalisms without money could look like.

Professor Giorgos Kallis, University of Barcelona

If you had to choose one book to read on making the next political economy it should be this one. It will have you bristling with political energy.

Professor Adam David Morton, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney

An accessible and important book. If you want an alternative to economic and environmental disasters, you need to engage with her arguments.

Jeff Sparrow, writer, editor and broadcaster

A passionate critique of money as the root cause of our many problems, presenting a clear vision of what life without money could look like. Inspiring.

Matthias Schmelzer, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and author of The Hegemony of Growth and The Future is Degrowth

With a compelling narrative, Nelson lays out the unavoidable question of todays anti-capitalist, ecological politics the question of money. Grounded in long-term political experience, her answer is at once elaborate and unequivocal: a wonderful tool for radical imagination and praxis.

Stefania Barca, author of Forces of Reproduction and Workers of the Earth

An exciting, original book that, in exploring the ritual structure of assets, capital, money and profit, helps open a way for more powerful, creative resistance.

Larry Lohmann, founding member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice

Can capitalism be overcome without challenging money? In this thoughtprovoking book, Anitra Nelson argues that moving beyond money is necessary for addressing inequalities and environmental unsustainability and shows what a non-monetary postcapitalist world might look like.

Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, researcher in degrowth and critical organisation studies, Lund University

Alternatives to capitalism, price-making markets and monetary values are essential for social-ecological transformation. Going well beyond typical economic discourse she opens the door of human potentiality to a different way of life.

Clive L. Spash, Professor of Public Policy and Governance at WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business

A Postcapitalist Strategy

Anitra Nelson

Foreword by John Holloway

First published 2022 by Pluto Press

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Copyright Anitra Nelson 2022

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