[PDF] The Breakdown Of Capitalism eBook

Author : F. R. Hansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315387484

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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.

Author : Mark Fisher
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1803414316

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

Author : Henryk Grossman
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1992-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745304595

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A classic work in the Marxist canon on political economy

Author : Ted Reese
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1789047749

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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?

Author : Francesco Boldizzoni
Publisher :
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674919327

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"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"--

Author : Jerry Mander
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1619020882

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In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problem of capitalism. Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system: "What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010." Capitalism, utterly dependent on never–ending economic growth, is an impossible absurdity on a finite planet with limited resources. Climate change, together with global food, water, and resource shortages, are only the start. Mander draws attention to capitalism's obsessive need to dominate and undermine democracy, as well as to diminish social and economic equity. Designed to operate free of "morality," the system promotes "permanent war" as a key economic strategy. Worst of all, the problems of capitalism are intrinsic to the form. Many organizations are already anticipating the breakdown of the system and are working to define new hierarchies of democratic values that respect the carrying capacities of the planet.

Author : Erik Olin Wright
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788739558

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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.