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Dialectics of Class Struggle in the Global Economy
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Much ink has been spilled in attempts to prove that humans are only animals and are, like other species, only aggressive. Marx distinguishes both class and cooperative relations as inorganic: humans create their subjectivity through their mutual social production. They build upon their previous forms of social production and, with capitalism, become not only an opposition of classes, but have the capacity for urban individualism and cooperation.
Dialectics of Class Struggle examines the historical development of classes from ancient times to present. It analyses the development of ancient slavery into feudalism and the latter into capitalism. It focuses on the laws and limits of capitalist development, the contradictions inherent in the capitalist state, revolutions in the twentieth century and the possibilities for human freedom that they revealed. It concludes with an examination of class struggles in the global economy and shows the human deprivations as well as the human possibilities.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Dialectics of Class Struggle in the Global Economy
- Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Marx's method
- 2 Marxist theory: From class struggle to political economy
- 3 Pre-capitalist social relations
- 4 Capitalism and social production
- 5 Capitalist state and society
- 6 Imperialism and world wars
- 7 The dialectics of world working class struggle
- 8 International working class revolution
- 9 Globalization and class struggle
- 10 Dialectics of the present class struggle: The laws of capitalist development
- Notes
- Bibliography