The wave of popular rebellions in 2011 taught us many lessons and raised several questions. However, the collective experience that the capitalist state and capitalism itself, as the possessor and producer of exclusive power and structural violence, are totally illegitimate and anachronistic – seems to be certain. The people, according to the author, are mature enough to understand this. Yet, how to move on? How to create a movement after mobilization? Where are the bridges, which link the struggle of today with a very different tomorrow?

In the recent apology of the capital, the maker of the perpetual motion in history, there is no trace of any revolutionary: the new apologists slavishly follow its uncontrolled commandments, exactly in the period of its fall. All of them, unilaterally say that there is no alternative to this system – denounces the classic of the 21st century the mainstream bourgeois ideology of our times.

In the 2008 crisis, government subventions were used to fight it – urging consumers to purchase cars and property – but the price of the temporarily recovery was rising state debt with no control. The decline of the core of capitalism, the US economy, will drag in the whole world. By deploying all of its anti-crisis tools accumulated over its history, the by now ‘outworn capitalism’ is not able to curb its serious diseases. We cannot expect a simple replacement of the unipolar world with an effective multipolar one but a very lasting decline. Barbarism is marching on the streets but the suppressed are also preparing to rise up.

István Mészáros wrote already about the structural crisis of capital in the early 1970s with a strong ecological critique. The capital system, points out Mészáros, is not a mechanism that can be logically controlled. On the contrary, the logic of capital overwrites everything, including heath care, education, production and the ecology. The drive for eternal accumulation undermines the conditions of existence. The logic of capital contradicts the ecological approach but a socialist society will be built on social and ecological sustainability.