Capital and Its Discontents Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult

Name: Capital and Its Discontents Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult
Price: 3.6 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781604863345

ISBN-10: 160486334X

ISBN-13: 9781604863345

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sasha Lilley

List price: $20.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $17.65

Marketplace

5 new & used from $3.60

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Unraveling the complicated details surrounding the world's present economic and political climate, this collection of interviews addresses the faulty underpinnings of capitalism and discusses why the future must be economically founded otherwise. Probing into the roots of the global economic crisis, the role that debt and privatization play in dampening social revolt, and the ramifications of post-colonial mentality in the Global South, this collection provides the tools for reconsidering capitalism and solutions for surviving current crisis by learning from past mistakes. This collection includes conversations with some of the most noted thinkers and political economists on the Left,…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: PM Press
Publication date: 3/7/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction



Empire, Neoliberalism, Crisis



Empire in the Age of Capital




The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Riddle of Capital




Demystifying Globalization




The Global Economic Meltdown




Capitalist Crisis and Radical Renewal




Commodification, Enclosure, and the Contradictions of Capitalism



The Ecological Dimensions of Marx's Thought




The Socio-Ecological Crises of Capitalism




The Agrarian Question and Multiple Paths of Capitalist Development in East Asia and South Africa




Labor and Capital, Gender and Commodification




Alternatives?



National Capitalism in the Third World




Isaac Deutscher and the Old Left




Anti-imperialism and the New Left, Revolt and Retrenchment




Postmodernism and the Politics of Expression




Anarchism, Council Communism, and Life After Capitalism




Libertarian Socialism for the Twenty-First Century



Acknowledgments


Contributors


Notes


Index