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The choice of such defining characteristics is however, far from being “value-free”, although on the surface it seems to express a self-evident truth: namely that capitalism and the investment of private capital are linked together.This is why it becomes possible for a Keynes in the challenging circumstances of the General Crisis and in its aftermath, to produce some partial scientific results within the boundaries of his overall approach, ...
The alienation of humankind, in the fundamental sense of the term, means the loss of control its embodiment in an alien force which confronts the individuals as a hostile and potentially destructive power. When Marx analysed alienation in his Economic and Philosophic manuscripts of 1844, he indicated four principal aspects of it the alienation of human beings form: (1) nature; (2) their own productive activity; (3) their ‘species being’, as members of the ...
This 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 Beyond Capital, Istvan Meszaros gives new meaning and urgency to the alternatives posed by Rosa Luxemburg at the beginning of the century. His detailed analysis of the roots and development of US global power shows how its supremacy has come at the cost of exhausting the universalizing ...