Climate crisis : time to rethink economic planning by demystifying capitalism and its market(s)

Vrečko Ilc, Blaž (author)

The purpose of the article is to open up epistemological space for revitalising the idea of democratic economic planning as a viable alternative vision. It argues that a proper development of the idea must be preceded by a comprehensive critical interrogation of a hegemonic multidimensional ideological mystification of capitalism and its markets. By utilizing Marxist and eco-socialist insights the article identifies and analyses several central ideological mystifications that enact an epistemic closure. These range from the obfuscation of capitalism's role in creating the climate crisis as an inherently unsustainable system, to the mystification of its non-evolutionary origins, to the obfuscation of the role economic planning plays in contemporary capitalism, to the mystification of markets as ideal spaces of freedom and innovation obfuscating the ever present market-related oppression, exploitation and environmental devastation, and to silencing concrete historical examples of democratic economic planning such as project Cybersyn that should serve as an inspiration for imagining an alternative order

• Language: English
• Keywords: climate change, neoliberalism, capitalism, economic planning, ideological mystification
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 30.06.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 341-360, 490-491
• Numbering: Letn. 58, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138778
• UDC: 321.01:504.7
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.58.2.341-360
• COBISS.SI-ID: 70730499
• Publication date in RUL: 17.08.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Klimatska kriza

Abstract

Namen članka je razširiti epistemološki horizont za revitalizacije ideje demokratičnega ekonomskega načrtovanja kot možne alternativne vizije. Pri tem predpostavlja, da mora dejanski celovit razvoj te alternativen vizije nujno predhoditi kritična analiza hegemonske večdimenzionalne ideološke mistifikacije kapitalizma in trga. Črpajoč iz uvidov marksistične in ekosocialistične analitične tradicije, članek identificira in analizira niz ključnih ideoloških mistifikacij, ki zapirajo epistemološki horizont. V tem okviru analizira tako prikrivanje vloge kapitalizma kot: inherentno netrajnostnega sistema v pojavu klimatske krize, mistifikacijo izvora kapitalizma kot domnevnega izraza evolucija, prikrivanje vloge ekonomskega načrtovanja v sodobnem kapitalizmu, mistifikacijo trgov kot prostorov svobode in inovacije in zakrivanje njihove vloge pri represiji, izkoriščanju in uničevanju okolja, ki so pripisani primarno ekonomskemu načrtovanju. Hkrati kritično naslovi utišanje konkretnih zgodovinskih primerov demokratičnega načrtovanja, kot je projekt Cybersyn, ki bi lahko služili kot inspiracija za nadaljnji razvoj vizij alternativne ureditve

• Keywords: klimatske spremembe, ekonomsko planiranje, ideološka mistifikacija, kapitalizem, neoliberalizem