ABSTRACT
The author shows how related tendencies of the perspective of autonomy can aid in the development of emancipatory anti-capitalist politics. Capitalism in its liberal democratic mode, is taken as the only and best of all possible worlds. Until the recent Global Financial Crisis the very term capitalism had started to disappear from the author's vocabulary as if simply stating its name would create the idea that there are other possible systems or forms of social organisation. Those who still hold criticisms and reservations about capitalism are then offered one of two choices. They can maintain the robustness of their critique but dispense with the methods to realise it; or they can engage in the realism of liberalism in the hope of ameliorating certain injustices. Especially since communism is equated with state control, the overt anti-authoritarianism and anti-statism of anarchism seems to mean that it is not only cleaner', it also responds directly to the bitter failings of the 20th century.
