Against Capital - Couverture souple

Slaughter, Cliff

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785350943 ISBN 13 : 9781785350948

Editeur : Zer0 Books, 2016

Synopsis

The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get rid of it. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed at the start of Cliff Slaughters latest book. Recognising the importance of István Mészáross analysis - in Beyond Capital (1995) and other books - of the historic, structural crisis that has taken capital into its stage of destructive self-reproduction, Against Capital focuses on the crucial question of agency. Today, when there are fundamental disjunctures between the globalised economy, the means of social control and political and state structures, what are we to make of Marxs conclusion that the working class - capitals only structural antagonist - is the gravedigger of capitalism? And what are the implications for this of the information revolution, the changing composition of the working class, and the emergence of new forms of oppositional organisation, with young people to the fore? Slaughter assembles contributions by participants in recent movements in South Africa, Britain, Spain, Mexico, countries in the former Soviet zone and - in a major contribution from Yassamine Mather - the Middle East. He offers an extended critique of vanguardist conceptions such as Trotskys the crisis of humanity is reduced to the crisis of working-class revolutionary leadership and Kautskys and the early Lenins formulation that socialist consciousness must be brought to the working class from the outside. Finally, Against Capital examines the necessary theoretical foundations of a rebuilt working-class movement, with special attention to the concepts of class-consciousness and the relation between theory and practice. This book is a compelling and distinctive contribution to recent debates encompassing works such as Thomas Pikettys Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) and Paul Masons PostCapitalism (2015).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Cliff Slaughter, brought up in a Communist Party family in Yorkshire, worked as a coalminer as an alternative to military National Service, before graduating from Cambridge University. He co-authored the classic Coal is Our Life with Norman Dennis and Fernando Henriques, since when has written a number of books on the working-class movement, socialism and Marxist theory. Now retired, he for many years taught social anthropology and sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Bradford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zer0 Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785350943
• ISBN 13: 9781785350948
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible