The article provides a framework for thinking about how the question of the future of capitalism might be addressed. One of the problems resides in the very definition of capitalism and of what its defining features consist of and whether we should be talking about ‘capitalist society’ or the ‘capitalist economy’ or some kind of post-capitalist condition. Following Polanyi, Castoriadis and Habermas, it is argued that capitalism and democracy together constitute the defining dynamics of modernity and that the resulting tensions will provide momentum for the main circuits of potential change. Five scenarios for looking at the future are discussed. These will form the main substance of the article: varieties of capitalism, systemic crises of capitalism, catastrophic collapse, low growth capitalism and post-capitalism. In conclusion, it is argued that there are various possibilities that can be understood in terms of transitions, breakdown or transformation, but a likely future trend will be less the end of capitalism than the harnessing of ‘super-capitalism’ and that there are limits to the accumulation of capital.

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资本主义的未来：未来的趋势、情景和前景

这篇文章提供了一个思考如何解决资本主义未来问题的框架。问题之一在于资本主义的定义及其定义特征的组成，以及我们应该谈论“资本主义社会”还是“资本主义经济”或某种后资本主义条件。继波兰尼、卡斯托里亚迪斯和哈贝马斯之后，有人认为资本主义和民主共同构成了现代性的决定性动力，由此产生的紧张局势将为潜在变化的主要回路提供动力。讨论了展望未来的五种情景。这些将构成本文的主要内容：资本主义的多样性、资本主义的系统性危机、灾难性崩溃、低增长资本主义和后资本主义。综上所述，