Routledge Chapman & Hall
Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis: The Past is Prologue
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- William Briggs
- Routledge Chapman & Hall
- Paperback
- 9780367731465
- 8.4 X 5.3 X 0.4 inches
- 0.61 pounds
- Political Science > Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Will capitalism survive forever?
Capitalism has always lived in and with crisis. Wars, revolutions, economic depression and repeated recessions, the threat of nuclear annihilation and ecological disaster have all failed to break the dominance of this economic and political system.
Challenging the predominance of capitalism in a world fraught with inequalities, this book returns to classical Marxism to reaffirm its relevance. It explores the contradictions within capitalism as well as explains why Marxism has been unable to mount a sustained challenge to capitalism. In order to explore concrete alternatives in a period of increasing capitalist globalisation and crisis, it goes on to present perspectives by which theory and practice might be reunited to building independent political and organisational structures.
A search for something better, this volume will be an engaging read for scholars and researchers of politics, especially political theory and political economy, economics, and sociology.
Author Bio
Dr William Briggs is a political economist affiliated to Deakin University whose special areas of interest lies in Marxist political theory. He writes for Pearls and Irritations on International Politics.
His latest book, China, the USA, and Capitalism’s Last Crusade, is due for publication in early 2021 with Zero Books. He is the author of Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis, Removing the Stalin Stain, and A Cauldron of Anxiety: Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century.
Source: Deakin University
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