I think that although capitalism has faced several crises, this crises is it's last crises. Capitalism constantly needs to expand in order to keep the element of competitiveness of labour, but capitalism has expanded to almost every part of the world. There's no developed nation left to turn into an industrialized capitalist nation. Neo-liberalism and globalization have seen to that. We're also facing the reality of many of our primary sources of energy simply depleting. So when it crashes, it's gonna crash hard, and how hard that crash is will be a function of how much we do before we run out of fossil fuel, restructure our economic dealings, etc. The way government's are currently moving is to erode civil liberties and become more and more fascist, and are clearly resisting any movement towards real change. So what happens when neo-liberalism completely blows up? Hell I don't know. No one knows. What I hope is that we adopt a system of exchange based on stability and support, one that puts the long term interests of humans at its core. Whether or not that's a barter economy or one where we still trade goods for money isn't too important to me. They're both economies in their own right, so it's how the economy functions that matters, not what you trade with. I think politics and self determination should and will return to a more local level, which is good. I want a society which has as much liberty as possible, and without the threat of the tyranny of the majority. As much as I might believe my own politics, when all the arguments are said and done you'll still believe what you believe and I'll still believe what I believe. Which is cool, as long as neither of us determines how the other person can or cannot live. We can argue about it until we're blue in the face, which is a good thing. Constantly critiquing yourself and others is how we grow intellectually.
