A companion to "Beyond Capital", this work focuses on the "decapitation of historical time" in capitalism and the necessity of a new "socialist time accountancy" as a revolutionary response to the debilitating present. It defines the challenges and burdens facing all those who are committed to a more rational, more egalitarian future.
Blending the tenets of Marxist theory with many of the more traditional methods of social science, this accessible book is a brief introduction to the major ideas and scholars in the Analytical Marxist school. The author assesses the achievements, strengths and criticisms of the work of Elster, Roemer, Wright and others, examining their writings on class, the state, exploitation and revolution. The book explores the challenge to Marxist thought brought about by contemporary developments in Eastern Europe and suggests how the future of Marxism is shaped by these events.
Puts forward a clear and innovative vision of a socialist future, and at the same time shows how concrete steps can be taken to make that vision a reality. This book shows how the understanding of capitalism can itself become a political act - a defense of the real needs of human beings against the ongoing advance of capitalist profit.
Puts forward a clear and innovative vision of a socialist future, and at the same time shows how concrete steps can be taken to make that vision a reality. This book shows how the understanding of capitalism can itself become a political act - a defense of the real needs of human beings against the ongoing advance of capitalist profit.
Examines whether capitalism can come to terms with ecological challenges and whether socialist thought has developed sufficiently to help us do so. These essays also analyze how deeply consumerism affects working class politics and the shortcomings of Green parties and "green commerce."
Ralph Miliband (1924-94) played a key role within the political and intellectual community of the Left, both in Britain and North America. This work provides debates and dilemmas of socialists from World War II until the collapse of communism.
Istvan Meszaros's bold new study analyzes the historical choices facing us at the outset of the new millennium. Drawing on the theoretical arguments of his monumental and widely-acclaimed work, Beyond Capital, Meszaros shows that the economic boom of the 1990s was built not only on the foundation of new, digital technologies but also on a new ......
Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s
Beginning in 1963, community organizing and the Students for a Democratic Society had as a goal nothing less than the abolition of poverty. Jennifer Frost examines how the goal changed and its legacy, as the USA moves into the 21st century.
