Open AccessCLIMATE CRISIS: TIME TO RETHINK ECONOMIC PLANNING BY DEMYSTIFYING CAPITALISM AND ITS MARKET(S)
Author(s) -
Blaž Vrečko Ilc
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
teorija in praksa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.191
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 0040-3598
DOI - 10.51936/tip.58.2.341-360
Subject(s) - capitalism , ideology , neoliberalism (international relations) , democracy , marxist philosophy , ideal (ethics) , sociology , free market , political economy , neoclassical economics , economic system , economics , political science , politics , law
. The purpose of the article is to open up epistemological space for revitalising the idea of democraticeconomic planning as a viable alternative vision. Itargues that a proper development of the idea must bepreceded by a comprehensive critical interrogation of ahegemonic multidimensional ideological mystificationof capitalism and its markets. By utilizing Marxist andeco-socialist insights the article identifies and analysesseveral central ideological mystifications that enact anepistemic closure. These range from the obfuscationof capitalism’s role in creating the climate crisis as aninherently unsustainable system, to the mystification ofits non-evolutionary origins, to the obfuscation of therole economic planning plays in contemporary capitalism, to the mystification of markets as ideal spaces offreedom and innovation obfuscating the ever presentmarket-related oppression, exploitation and environmental devastation, and to silencing concrete historical examples of democratic economic planning such asproject Cybersyn that should serve as an inspiration forimagining an alternative order.Keywords: climate change, ideological mystification,democratic economic planning, capitalism, neoliberalism