The challenge and burden of historical time
Subtitle: socialism in the twenty-first century
By: Mészáros, István ; foreword by John Bellamy Foster.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781583671696; 9781583671702
Subjects: Capitalism; Imperialism; Socialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The tyranny of capital's time imperative; title: The time of the individuals and the time of humanity; title: Human beings reduced to "time's carcase"; title: The loss of historical time consciousness; title: Free time and emancipation; title: The uncontrollability and destructiveness of globalizing capital; title: The extraction of surplus labour; title: In capital's "organic system"; title: Unreformability, uncontrollability and destructiveness; title: The system's threefold internal fracture; title: Capital's failure to create its global state formation; title: Chronic insufficiency of "extraneous help" by the state; title: Marxism, the capital system and social revolution; title: The global view of capital; title: Historical limits of the labour theory of value; title: Ongoing proletarianization and its wishful denials; title: The necessary renewal of Marxian conceptions; title: The objective possibility of socialism?; title: Political and social revolution; title: Downward equalization of the differential rate of exploitation; title: Socialism or barbarism:; title: From the "American century" to the crossroads; title: Foreword; title: Capital - the living contradiction; title: The potentially deadliest phase of imperialism; title: Historical challenges facing the socialist movement; title: Conclusion; title: Postscript: militarism and the coming wars; title: Unemployment and "flexible casualization"; title: The globalization of unemployment; title: The myth of flexibility and the reality of precarization; title: From the tyranny of necessary labour time to emancipation through disposable time; title: Economic theory and politics-beyond capital; title: Alternative economic approaches; title: The need for comprehensive planning; title: Capital's hierarchical command structure; title: From predictions based on "economic laws working behind the backs of the individuals" to anticipations of a controllable future; title: Objective preconditions for the creation of non-deterministic economic theory; title: Socialist accountancy and emancipatory politics; title: The challenge of sustainable development and the culture of substantive equality; title: Farewell to "liberty-fraternity-equality"; title: The failure of "modernization and development"; title: Structural domination and the culture of substantive inequality; title: Education-beyond capital; title: The incorrigibility of capital's logic and its impact on education; title: Remedies cannot be just formal; they must be essential; title: "Learning is our very life, from youth to old age"; title: Education as the "positive transcendence of labour's self-alienation"; title: Socialism in the twenty-first century; title: Irreversibility: the imperative of a sustainable alternative order; title: Participation: the progressive transfer of decision-making to the associated producers; title: Substantive equality: the absolute condition of sustainability; title: Planning: the necessity to overcome capital's abuse of time; title: Qualitative growth in utilization: The only viable economy; title: The national and the international: Their dialectical complementarity in our time; title: Alternative to parliamentarism: unifying the material reproductive and the political sphere; title: Education: the ongoing development of socialist consciousness; title: Why socialism? Historical time; title: And the actuality of radical change; title: Conflicting determinations of time; title: Why capitalist globalization cannot work?; title: The structural crisis of politics; title: New challenges on our horizon and the urgency of time; title: Notes; title: Index.