The Breakdown of Capitalism
Title | The Breakdown of Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | F. R. Hansen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2017-02-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1315387484 |
This comprehensive and lucid study, first published in 1985, reconstructs the history of Western Marxist theories of the breakdown of capitalism. It provides a critical reading of theories of breakdown, with their conflicting interpretations of a single text, their invulnerability to empirical defeat, and their retreat from class analysis, as events in the history of ideas. This study traces the sources of theoretical conflict in a series of historical and epistemological issues that shift over time and generate new conditions for speculations concerning the fate of the system. In seeking to understand that durability of the concept of breakdown, the author raises important questions about the social conditions and consequences of theoretical work and the status of critical thought in society. This title will be of interest to students of history and economics.
Capitalist Realism
Title | Capitalist Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Fisher |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2009-11-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1780997345 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.
The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System
Title | The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System PDF eBook |
Author | Henryk Grossman |
Publisher | Pluto Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992-03-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780745304595 |
A classic work in the Marxist canon on political economy
Foretelling the End of Capitalism
Title | Foretelling the End of Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Boldizzoni |
Publisher | |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0674919327 |
"Prophecies about the end of capitalism are as old as capitalism. None of them, so far, has come true. Yet we keep looking into the crystal ball in search of harbingers of doom. Francesco Boldizzoni gets to the root of the very human need to imagine a better world and uncovers the mechanisms by which the same forecasting mistakes are made over and over again. He offers a compelling solution to the puzzle of what is capitalism and why it seems able to survive all sorts of shocks. The global crisis that developed countries faced at the beginning of the twenty-first century has undermined faith in the capitalist market economy bringing once again to the forefront questions about its long-term prospects. Is capitalism on its way out? If not, what should be expected from future crises? Will society be able and willing to bear the social and environmental costs of creative destruction and relentless financialization? These and other questions have lain at the heart of political economy since the age of Karl Marx. Foretelling the End of Capitalism takes us on a journey through two centuries of unfulfilled prophecies to challenge the belief in an immutable destiny"--
The Breakdown of Capitalism & the Fight for Socialism in the United States
Title | The Breakdown of Capitalism & the Fight for Socialism in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Socialist Equality Party (U.S.) |
Publisher | Mehring Books |
Pages | 63 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Capitalism |
ISBN | 189363812X |
The End of Capitalism
Title | The End of Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Reese |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2022-05-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789047749 |
Henryk Grossman is a name most socialists or students of political and social theory - let alone the mass of working people around the world - have probably never heard of. Yet Grossman, a Polish Jew born in 1881, deserves recognition as the most sophisticated defender of Karl Marx's theory of capitalism's inevitable collapse. With capitalism sinking into its deepest ever crisis, Grossman's neglected work must be revisited and popularised. Is capitalism entering its final breakdown?
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
Title | How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Olin Wright |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1788739558 |
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values—equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity—can provide both the basis for a critique of capitalism and help to guide us toward a socialist and democratic society. Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into this concise and tightly argued manifesto: analyzing the varieties of anticapitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the foundations for a society dedicated to human flourishing. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century is an urgent and powerful argument for socialism, and an unparalleled guide to help us get there. Another world is possible. Included is an afterword by the author’s close friend and collaborator Michael Burawoy.