The defetishised society
Subtitle: new economic democracy as a libertarian alternative to capitalism
By: Chris Wyatt
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781441159335
Subjects: Commodity fetishism; Political aspects; Democracy; Libertarianism; Economics; Economic aspects; Capitalism
Description: "New Economic Democracy establishes a self-governing civil society, unifying the private sphere of production and the public sphere of citizenship within a non-statist scheme of communal ownership. It provides the premises to seeking a solution to Marx's fetishism of commodities. Only a thorough restructuring of the economic and political institutions can provide the social climate in which the phenomenon of fetishism can be transcended. Defetishizing the commodity implies reversing the concealment of the social relations through which commodities are produced and preventing the tendency to bestow magical characteristics to commodities. The key imperative to the defetishized society is a system of genuinely democratic institutions. iprovides this necessary corrective and also challenges the prediction that politico-economic organizations, like worker cooperatives, are destined to be dominated by the dictates of oligarchs. The explanatory approach of Marx's concepts combined with an original argument will make the book a valuable research tools to students and researchers in political theory, democratic theory, and political economy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Commodity fetishism, anti-fetishism and new economic democracy; title: Defetishisation in the economy of new economic democracy.