ISBN:
9781583675397
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (327 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Necessity of Social Control
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Marxian school of sociology
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Socialism
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Capitalism
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Historical materialism
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Marxian economics
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Sociology ; Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, "István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx's theory of alienation, the structural crisis of capital, the demise of Soviet-style post-revolutionary societies, and the necessary conditions of the transition to socialism. His dialectical inquiry into social structure and forms of consciousness-a systematic critique of the prevailing forms of thought-is unequaled in our time." Mészáro
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; 1 The Necessity of Social Control; 1.1 The Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology; 1.2 Capitalism and Ecological Destruction; 1.3 The Crisis of Domination; 1.4 From "Repressive Tolerance" to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression; 1.5 War if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail; 1.6 The Emergence of Chronic Unemployment; 1.7 The Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation; 1.8 Capital's "Correctives" and Socialist Control; 2 Marxism Today; 2.1 Sartre's Alternative; 2.2 Marxism Today; 2.3 Mickey Mouse Socialism; 2.4 The Problem of Organization
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Causality, Time, and Forms of Mediation3.1 Causality and Time under Capital's Causa Sui; 3.2 The Vicious Circle of Capital's Second Order Mediations; 4 The Activation of Capital's Absolute Limits; 5 The Meaning of Black Mondays (and Wednesdays); 6 The Potentially Deadliest Phase of Imperialism; 7 The Challenge of Sustainable Development and the Culture of Substantive Equality; 7.1 Farewell to "Liberty-Fraternity-Equality"; 7.2 The Failure of "Modernization and Development"; 7.3 Structural Domination and the Culture of Substantive Inequality; 8 Another World Is Possible and Necessary
Description / Table of Contents:
8.1 The Myth of Ideological Neutrality and the Imposition of the Single-Ideology State8.2 The Emergence of Neoliberal Consensus; 8.3 Capital's Structural Crisis and the Implosion of the Soviet System; 8.4 The Persistent Neglect of the National Question; 8.5 Crisis in the Western Socialist Movement; 8.6 Patriotism and Internationalism; 8.7 The Immediate and the Long Term: Continuity and Change in Socialist Strategy; 8.8 The Need to Redress Structural Inequality; 8.9 The Necessary Global Alternative; 8.10 The Social Subject of Emancipation and the Power of Emancipatory Ideology
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Alternative to Parliamentarism10 Reflections on the New International; 11 Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change; 12 The Mountain We Must Conquer: Reflections on the State; Introduction; 12.1 The End of Liberal-Democratic Politics; 12.2 The "Withering Away" of the State?; 12.3 The Wishful Limitation of State Power; 12.4 The Assertion of Might-as-Right; 12.5 Eternalizing Assumptions of Liberal State Theory; 12.6 Hegel's Unintended Swan Song and the Nation-State; 12.7 Capital's Social Metabolic Order and the Failing State; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O
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