http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/chavez_mas_alla_del_capital.jpgNo one -- not even the personifications of capital (or the 1%, i.e., the top echelon of class societies) -- really controls the system. Rather it controls them. This is why we will live in "the shadow of uncontrollability" (István Mészáros, in Part One of Beyond Capital, Monthly Review Press, 1995) as long as capital succeeds in imposing its alien and alienating separation of production and control over society at large. This feature -- uncontrollability resulting in limitless expansion beyond control -- is unique in history and gave capital a powerful advantage in its reach beyond the feudal system. As long as nature and alienated humanity could somehow absorb and withstand the negative destructive assaults of the system, capital could expand in its distorted ways. . . . Carbon levels in the atmosphere are at 400-plus ppm, although the maximum recognized as acceptable is 350 ppm. Alienated humanity is becoming conscious of its own complicity in this and other crimes against nature and itself and is searching for alternatives to the capital system. To solve these problems, our collective search must go to the heart of the capital system where the fracture of production and control occurs.

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