In Red Star (1908) by Alexandr Bogdanov, a communist society on Mars observes the Earth. On realising that the human species has been incapable of overthrowing capitalism, they propose its destruction.
More than a century after its publication, Paul Mason poses the question anew: taking into account the current economic context, would the Martians have put an end to humanity?
Mason opts for imagining terrestrial salvation, because between the neoliberal market movements, non-mercantile exchanges emerge, the fruit of the new collaborative economy. In the light of these first signs of change, Paul Mason outlines a simple participative game to illustrate the alternatives that confront us.
