“THIS SUCKER COULD GO DOWN.” – George W. Bush, 9/25/08

Is This the End of Capitalism?

By Alex KNIGHT

Hi, I’m Alex Knight.  I’m a teacher, writer, and activist. I manage endofcapitalism.com and I’m writing a book called The End of Capitalism. I was born on July 4, 1983. I was raised an All-American boy in a working class family in a small town outside of Philadelphia. Alex Knight is an organizer, teacher and writer in Philadelphia. Alex has been developing the theory of the end of capitalism since 2005, when he was studying at Lehigh University. The theory argues that the global capitalist system is breaking down due to ecological and social limits to growth and that a paradigm shift toward a non-capitalist future is underway. Alex graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Master’s degree in Political Science. He began organizing students in college on anti-war and environmental issues. From 2006-09, he helped build the new Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), organizing at the campus, city, and national levels. Alex was present for the first day of Occupy Wall St. and has been instrumental in facilitating the General Assembly of Occupy Philadelphia.

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” — Kenneth Boulding, economist.

“This sucker could go down.” – George W. Bush, 9/25/08

Capitalism requires growth. A system that requires growth cannot last forever on a planet that is defined by ecological and social limits. Capitalism is therefore fundamentally unsustainable – sooner or later it will run up against those limits and the system will stop functioning. At this moment we are in the midst of a crisis which is calling into question the future of this system. Now is a perfect opportunity to envision a new way of living in the world that can meet human needs while also respecting the needs of the planet. It is time to build this new world.

MIGRANT CRISIS IS GETTING A NEW DIMENSION

Walls Work!

Now Continent Faces
a New Invasion by Sea

by CHARLIE MOORE

Walls work! Year-on pictures show how Europe's new Iron Curtain stemmed the tide of migrants through the Balkans - now continent faces a new invasion by sea

- This time last year hundreds of thousands of migrants were heading to northern Europe through the Balkan route 
- But since February this year many countries along the route have closed or tightened their borders stopping flow 
- Recent jaw-dropping photos of sites that only months ago were packed with refugees show how tide has stopped 
- Instead people smuggling gangs have switched to more dangerous routes across the Mediterranean to Italy, Spain

WHY THE NEXT WORLD WAR WILL BE FOUGHT OVER FOOD

The world has a massive food crisis — so big that the World Bank and the United Nations say there won’t be enough food to feed the global population by 2050. But feeding the world is big business.

The world has a massive food crisis on its hands. The crisis is so big that organizations like the World Bank and the United Nations say there won’t be enough food to feed the global population when it jumps from the current seven billion people to nine billion by 2050.

Some research even suggests a food scarcity crunch as early as 2030 — just 15 years from now.