ABSTRACT
This chapter can be seen as a kind of synthesis of the main ideas presented in previous chapters. It thus repeats what was presented before but actualizes the ideas and puts them in the proper context. It is based in two formal presentations for seminars organized in the Institute of Economic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2010 and 2019 on “Civilizational crisis and overcoming capitalism”. Both are concentrated in people's responses to the “crisis” and to argue about the implications of the final phase of capitalism. The analysis shows that the “society of control” organized after the pandemic was already being constructed years before the pandemic started.
