f{"id":47123,"date":"2026-03-10T21:24:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=47123"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:24:58","slug":"book-escape-from-capitalism-economics-is-political-and-other-liberating-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/book-escape-from-capitalism-economics-is-political-and-other-liberating-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;Escape From Capitalism: Economics is Political, and Other Liberating Truths&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1754147810i\/239435090.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Escape From Capitalism: Economics is Political, and Other Liberating Truths<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/22280534.Clara_E_Mattei\">Clara E. Mattei<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8216;Capitalism seems invincible and inevitable. It is neither. Clara Mattei illustrates brilliantly its fragility and restores hope that everything could be different&#8217; Yanis Varoufakis<br><\/strong><br><strong>Economics is sold as pure and scientific, neutral, exact. This urgent book exposes its true to convince us there\u2019s no alternative to capitalism.<\/strong><br><br>We live in a world dominated by the dogma that austerity is necessary, unemployment natural, endless wars inevitable and central banks all-powerful. It doesn\u2019t have to be this way.<br><br>In her bold, ground-breaking manifesto, economist Clara E. Mattei tears the mask off our economic system. She unpacks key concepts like growth, inflation, unemployment and balanced budgets to show how they\u2019re weaponized to enforce market dependence, not freedom, stripping us of the power to shape the democratic decisions that govern our daily lives. Enduring problems such as poverty and inequality are not accidents or bugs in the economy, but core features \u2013 justified with pseudoscientific models to support a system that unfairly rewards people with the most resources.<br><br>Why should we accept this? Capitalism, Mattei argues, isn\u2019t inevitable, scientific, or natural \u2013 it&#8217;s a relatively young system that\u00a0<em>can<\/em>\u00a0be replaced. Inspired by a lineage of political resistance,\u00a0<em>Escape from Capitalism<\/em>\u00a0calls for us to challenge the broken economics of our times, and pave the way towards liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escape From Capitalism: Economics is Political, and Other Liberating Truths Clara E. Mattei &#8216;Capitalism seems invincible and inevitable. It is neither. Clara Mattei illustrates brilliantly its fragility and restores hope that everything could be different&#8217; Yanis VaroufakisEconomics is sold as pure and scientific, neutral, exact. This urgent book exposes its&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/book-escape-from-capitalism-economics-is-political-and-other-liberating-truths\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}