Crack Capitalism

Author: John Holloway
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745330082
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Crack Capitalism, argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of weak points, or "cracks" in the capitalist system. John Holloway's previous book, Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide debate among activists about the most effective methods of resisting capitalism. Now Holloway rejects the idea of a disconnected plurality of struggles and finds a unifying contradiction -- the opposition between the time we spend working as part of the system and our excess "doing" where we revolt and refuse to be subsumed. Clearly and accessibly presented in the form of 33 theses, Crack Capitalism is set to reopen the debate among radical scholars and activists seeking to break capitalism.

Crack

Author: David Farber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.

Change the World Without Taking Power

Author: John Holloway
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Offers a radical rethinking of Marx's concept of revolution that shows how we can bring about social and political change today.

Casino Capitalism

Author: Susan Strange
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719052354
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

We Are the Crisis of Capital

Author: John Holloway
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1629633305
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
We Are the Crisis of Capital collects articles and excerpts written by radical academic, theorist, and activist John Holloway over a period of forty years. This collection asks, “Is there a way out?” How do we break capital, a form of social organisation that dehumanises us and threatens to annihilate us completely? How do we create a world based on the mutual recognition of human dignity? Holloway’s work answers loudly, “By screaming NO!” By thinking from our own anger and creativity. By trying to recover the “we” buried under the categories of capitalist thought. By opening those categories and discovering the antagonism they conceal and by discovering that behind the concepts of money, state, capital, crisis, and so on, there moves our resistance-and-rebellion. An approach sometimes referred to as Open Marxism, it is an attempt to rethink Marxism as daily struggle. The articles move forward, influenced by the German state derivation debates of the 1970s, by the CSE debates in Britain, and the group around the Edinburgh journal Common Sense, and then moving on to Mexico and the wonderful stimulus of the Zapatista uprising, and now the continuing whirl of discussion with colleagues and students in the Posgrado de Sociología of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.

Casino capitalism

Author: Susan Strange
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996599
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
A classic in the field of political economy, reissued here with a new, incisive introduction. The global financial crisis that Strange predicted in her work has now taken place, and to a large extent is still happening.

Capitalist Realism

Author: Mark Fisher
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1803414316
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Erik Olin Wright
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788739558
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
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.

Consequences of Capitalism

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642593834
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
Is our "common sense" understanding of the world a reflection of the ruling class’s demands of the larger society? If we are to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet, Chomsky and Waterstone forcefully argue that we must look closely at the everyday tools we use to interpret the world. Consequences of Capitalism make the deep, often unseen connections between common sense and power. In making these linkages we see how the current hegemony keep social justice movements divided and marginalized. More importantly, we see how we overcome these divisions.

Articulating Hidden Histories

Author: Jane Schneider
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520085824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Explores the full range of Eric R. Wolf's methods and concepts and pays tribute to his work in anthropology and history.