Democracy against capitalism : renewing historical materialism
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Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9781784782443
Category
Capitalism + consumer activism (CON)
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Publication Year
2016
Publisher
Pages
300
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Description
Only a renewed historical materialism can accomplish the task. Meiksins Wood redefines the tradition's basic concepts and theory of history to identify the specificity of capitalism as a system of social relations and political power. This, she argues, is inimical to democracy-a concept she interrogates in both its ancient and modern forms, before asking how it can overcome its present limits.
Biblio Notes
Notes:
Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism. 1. The separation of the 'economic' and the 'political' in capitalism ; 2. Rethinking base and superstructure ; 3. Class as process and relationship ; 4. History or technological determinism? ; 5. History or teleology? Marx versus Weber -- II. Democracy Against Capitalism. 6. Labour and democracy, ancient and modern ; 7. The demos versus 'we, the people' : from ancient to modern conceptions of citizenship ; 8. Civil society and the politics of identity ; 9. Capitalism and human emancipation: race, gender and democracy.
Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism. 1. The separation of the 'economic' and the 'political' in capitalism ; 2. Rethinking base and superstructure ; 3. Class as process and relationship ; 4. History or technological determinism? ; 5. History or teleology? Marx versus Weber -- II. Democracy Against Capitalism. 6. Labour and democracy, ancient and modern ; 7. The demos versus 'we, the people' : from ancient to modern conceptions of citizenship ; 8. Civil society and the politics of identity ; 9. Capitalism and human emancipation: race, gender and democracy.
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