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On The Transformative Potential of the ‚Green New Deal‘

Autor*innen: Decker, Samuel
https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-36-4-51
Volume XXXVI • Issue 4 • 2020
Seiten 51 - 73
Keywords: Green New Deal, Transformation, Economic Policy, Economic Planning, Reformism, Alternatives to Capitalism, Mode of Production

Abstract

This article examines the transformative potential of various Green New Deal concepts that are currently being discussed in response to multiple crisis symptoms of globalised capitalism. The main focus is on the development of a systematic analytical framework, which will allow the defi-nition and assessment of the transformative potential of different political programmes. Throughout three constitutive characteristics of capitalist produc-tion (separation of wage labour and property, of enterprises among themselves and of the totality of enterprises and the state), three levels of transformation are presented (redistribution, socialisation and planning). Subsequently, different Green New Deal concepts are examined in order assess to what extent they can contribute to a transformation of capitalism.

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