• Prologue: The migration north
• Whale country
• Whale fall
• The floating coast
• The waking ice
• The moving tundra
• The climate of change
• The unquiet earth
• Elements of redemption
• Caloric values
• Species of enlightenment
• Epilogue: The transformation of matter.

Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived, the area became the site of an experiment and the modern ideologies of production and consumption, capitalism and communism were subject to the pressures of arctic scarcity. Demuth draws a vivid portrait of the sweeping effects of turning ecological wealth into economic growth and state power over the past century and a half. More urgent in a warming climate and as we seek new economic ideas for a post-industrial age, Floating Coast delivers warnings and poses provocative questions about human desires and needs in relation to environmental sustainability.
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• Einleitung : zur Problematik liberaler politischer Theorie
• Ausgangslagen : Konstellationen liberalen Denkens nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg
• Liberale Suchbewegungen im Ersten Weltkrieg : Hugo Preuss, Leopold von Wiese und Max Weber
• Startbedingungen für die Demokratie
• Schwierigkeiten mit der liberalen Demokratie
• Liberale Bürgerlichkeit und bürgerlicher Antiliberalismus
• Der Feind von rechts : Auseinandersetzung mit dem Faschismus
• Eine frühe liberale Deutung des Faschismus : Fritz Schotthf̲er
• Moritz Julius Bonn : Faschismus als Tyrannei der primitiven Demokratie
• Rechtsliberale Sympathien für den Faschismus? : der Fall Erwin von Beckerath
• Ludwig von Mises : Faschismus als Antimarxismus
• Staatsrechrliche Perspektiven : Gerhard Leibholz und Hermann Heller
• Liberales Denken und der Faschismus : eine Neubewertung
• Verteidigung der parlamentarischen Ordnung : Nachdenken über die "wehrhafte" Demokratie
• Robert Michels' Soziologie des Parteiwesens : Selbstgefährdungen der Demokratie
• Parlamentarismus in der Weimarer Republik : Herausforderer und Verteidiger
• Hans Kelsen als Theoretiker der Demokratie
• Kelsens Verteidigung der parlamentarischen Regierungsform
• Defizite und Gefährdungen der Demokratie
• Karl Loewenstein : "Militant Democracy"
• Moralische Aufrüstung der liberalen Demokratie
• Liberale Lehren aus der Krise : auf dem Weg zu einer robusten Demokratie?
• Einhegung des Kapitalismus? : die liberale Reformdiskussion in der Zwischenkriegszeit und die Suche nach dritten Wegen
• Strukturwandel im Verhältnis von Liberalismus und Kapitalismus
• Probleme des deutschen Kapitalismus : Moritz Julius Bonns Defizitanalyse
• Das amerikanische Vorbild
• Politik und Ökonomie im Angesicht der Staatskrise
• Genese des Ordoliberalismus
• Totaler oder starker Staat? : Carl Schmitt und der Ordoliberalismus
• Auf der Suche nach Ordnung
• Das Legitimationsproblem eines demokratischen Kapitalismus
• Ausblicke und Neuansätze nach 1933
• Ernüchterung und Erneuerung : zum liberalen Denken im 20. Jahrhundert
• Danksagung
• Bibliographie
• Namenregister.

• Vorwort / von Dietmar Dath
• Kritik an der Macht und an der Ohnmacht : Warum es ohne Marx keine Politik gegen das Unrecht gibt
• Redaktion
• Prolog
• "... Es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern"
• Karl Marx, seine Ideen, seine Zeit / Heiko Humburg
• Warum ist Marx ein Denker, an dem keiner vorbeikommt?
• Vom Kopf auf die Füsse : wie eine neue Weltanschauung entsteht
• Die Kraft der Veränderung : Marx und Engels entdecken die Arbeiterklasse
• Die wirkliche Bewegung : Marx, Engels und der Kampf für den Sozialismus
• Was bleibt?
• Der Kapitalismus unserer Zeit
• Redaktion
• Einleitung
• Gestohlene Zukunft : Jugendarmut als zivilisatorischer Skandal / Werner Seppmann
• Bildung : Privileg oder Menschenrecht? / Paul Rodermund
• Frauen im kapitalistischen Deutschland / Seta Radin
• Warum der Markt die ökologische Krise nicht lösen kann / Philipp Krämer
• Fluchtursache Imperialismus / Patrik Köbele
• Deutschland : Imperialismus und Grossmachtstreben / Jürgen Wagner
• Konkurrenz und Kooperation : Internationale Abhängigkeiten und die Rolle Deutschlands / Björn Schmidt
• Was die Krise von 2007 über den Kapitalismus offenbart / Lucas Zeise
• Eine lebendige Theorie, eine lebendige Bewegung
• Redaktion
• Einleitung
• Eine neue Epoche, eine neue Partei : Lenin, der Imperialismus und der erste Versuch / Beate Landefeld
• Der Faschismus auf dem Weg zur Macht : das Ringen um eine antifaschistische Strategie / Jürgen Lloyd
• Zweimal Deutschland : Alte Nazis und ein grosser Versuch / Arnold Schölzel
• Welchen Marx hätten Sie denn gerne? : von antiautoritären Studierenden und dem Aufbruch der Lehrlinge / Hans-Peter Brenner
• Der Kapitalismus als Ende der Geschichte? / Georg Fülberth
• Epilog / Lena Kreymann
• Dank für die Mitarbeit.

• Vorwort
• Ein Bild des Philosophen
• Eine Aufforderung zum Denken
• Eine Frage des Rechthabens
• Der Ruhm
• Der Theoretiker und der Revolutionär
• Die Ökonomie und der Rest der Welt
• Die Wiederkehr des Goldenen Zeitalters
• Die Aufhebung der Politik
• Das billige Brot
• Das Manifest
• Die Brüder des Trostes
• Das Gespenst des Kommunismus
• Die Kunst der Masse
• Ein Dokument des Umbruchs
• Der Entwurf einer Weltgeschichte
• Die Botschaft der Geschichte
• Mängel und Schwächen
• Die Verschwörung
• Die Notwendigkeit der Geschichte
• Die Guten dieser Erde
• Das Ende von allem
• Das Geld
• Das Mass der Dinge
• Die Zauberkraft des Geldes
• Das Universum des Tausches
• Die Gewalt der Verfügung
• Die Macht des Unbekannten
• Das Mehr
• Forschungen eines Hundes
• Gewinner und Verlierer
• Arbeitszeit und Bezahlung
• Sinnliches und Übersinnliches
• Hoffnung und Weltuntergang
• Das Kapital
• Der Held der Geschichte
• Glaube und Krise
• Die Gesellschaft der Spekulanten
• Kapital und Zukunft
• Die Bändigung des Zufalls
• Das Gold und die Deckung
• Das Reale und das Fiktive
• Das Eigentum
• Kommunismus ist Diebstahl
• Die Welt ist Eigentum
• Das Eigentum ist Person
• Arbeitsmittel sind Privateigentum
• Der Einzige ist sein Eigentum
• Eigentum ist Entfremdung
• Das Haus bin ich
• Die Sprache
• Das Kapital und der Vampir
• Die Bilder der Lehre
• Metapher und Wahrnehmung
• Der Effekt des Wirklichen
• Die Geschichte des Zombies
• Die Arbeit
• Die Grabenden und die Schlagenden
• Die Sichtbarkeit der Mühsal
• Der Verein der Arbeit
• Die Gegenwart der Klassen
• Das Schwinden der Arbeiterklasse
• Das Ende der Arbeit
• Die Gleichheit
• Ungleichheit ist eine Bedrohung
• Die Macht ist die Bank
• Der Tausch verlangt Gleichheit
• Die Gleichheit widerspricht der Freiheit
• Gleichheit ist eine junge Errungenschaft
• Ungleichheit verlangt nach Empirie
• Die Gleichheit sucht ihren Rhythmus
• Die Krise
• Die Möglichkeiten des Verstandes
• Das Wissen der Krise
• Die Fortschritte des Kapitals
• Die Lehre vom Exzess
• Der Fall der Profitrate
• Das Neue und das Alte
• Das Ende des Wachstums
• Die Revolution
• Der Umsturz und seine Richtung
• Der Aufstand und sein Publikum
• Das Gefühl und seine Helden
• Die Revolution und ihr Rahmen
• Die Revolte und ihr Preis
• Der Griff zur Notbremse
• Die Wissenschaft
• Ein Leben in der Bibliothek
• Die Wissenschaft im Singular
• Ein Einsiedler in einem Riesennest
• Die Unendlichkeit der Exzerpte
• Ein Einzelner in der Wissenschaft
• Ein Übermass an Arbeit
• Ein Dialektiker in der Naturgeschichte
• Die Zeitung
• Der Grossteil des Werks
• Die Bedeutung des Journals
• Die Gunst des Augenblicks
• Die Gemeinsamkeit der Bildung
• Die Aufgabe der öffentlichkeit
• Der Fetisch
• Die Seele der Ware
• Der Tisch und die Grillen
• Ware und Schaufenster
• Der Name der Sache
• Kreativitat und Reklame
• Entfremdung für Dinge
• Das Scheitern
• Die Tragik des Ruhms
• Eine Sache ohne Ende
• Welt ohne Ketten
• Abschied von der Theorie
• Der Protest und die Kunst
• Wissen, woran man ist
• Ein Dank
• Anmerkungen.

• Vorwort des Herausgebers
• "Das Kapital" im historischen Kontext lesen : "Kapital"-Rezeption und sozialistische Strategie seit 1867 / Ingo Schmidt
• Karl Kautsky zwischen Marx-Orthodoxie und Oktoberrevolution / Reinhart Kössler
• Marxismus im Zeitalter der Hoffnungen und Katastrophen : Lenin / Lutz Brangsch
• Rosa Luxemburgs Marxismus / Frigga Haug
• Marx, Luxemburg, Lenin und die Reproduktion : "Kapital"-Rezeption an den Schnittstellen von Wissenschaft und Politik / Lutz Brangsch
• Formwandel der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise und die Theorie des Staatsmonopolistischen Kapitalismus / Jörg Goldberg
• Marxismus und "Dritte Welt" : Marxismus in der "Dritten Welt" / Reinhart Kössler
• "Das Kapital" und das moderne System der kapitalistischen Produktionsverhältnisse : vom Abstrakten zum Konkreten / Alexander V. Buzgalin, Andre I. Kolganov
• Von Klassen, die kämpfen : die "Produktion des Kapitals" konflikttheoretisch lesen / Thomas Goes
• Der verborgene Klassenkampf im "Kapital" von Marx / Christian Frings
• Kapitaldominierte Reproduktion der Gesellschaft : Möglichkeiten der Überwindung von Engführungen der Rezeption der Akkumulationstheorie von Karl Marx / Michael Brie
• Die Autorlnnen.

• Einleitung
• Zur Methode
• Begrifflichkeiten
• Zur Vorgeschichte
• Fortwirkungen
• Denkeinsatz 1923
• Das Phänomen der Verdinglichung
• Die Ware und das Ganze : Verdinglichung und Entfremdung : die Abstraktion der menschlichen Arbeit : Rationalisierung als Prinzip
• Ursprüngliche und neue Dinghaftigkeit : Unmittelbarkeit und verdinglichtes Bewusstsein : Grenzen der Rationalisierung
• Das Bild des Ganzen geht verloren : Form und Inhalt des Rechts : Verdinglichung und Formalismus als Herausforderung für die Philosophie
• Die Antinomien des bürgerlichen Denkens
• Konsequenzen der Kopernikanischen Wendung : Rationalismus als Formsystem : Aspekte des "Ding an sich"-Problems : Irrationalität als Grenze rationalistischer Systembildung : Formen und Inhalte des Erkennens
• Dasein als Produkt des Denksubjekts : Subjekt als Erzeuger der Totalität der Inhalte : Subjekt und Objekt : Gegensatz und Einheit : Tätigkeit als Einheitspunkt weltanschaulicher Aktivität : Fichtes "Tathandlung" : das Wesen des Praktischen : Formen und Inhalte des Erkennens
• Moderne Gesellschaftsentwicklung als Grundlage philosophischer Antinomien : Tätigkeit oder Handeln? der Mensch als Objekt und Subjekt des Geschehens : Weltanschauliche Wandlungen des Naturbegriffs : Kunst als der gesuchte Einheitspunkt? Formen und Inhalte des Erkennens : Intuitiver Verstand und intellektuelle Anschauung als Lösungsversuche
• Grenzen erkenntnistheoretischer Fragestellungen und ihre dialektische Aufhebung : die Aufhebung begrifflicher Starre als das einzige Interesse der Vernunft : Postulate und Leistungen der Hegeischen Dialektik : Subjekt und Objektals dialektisches Problem : Geschichte als Substanz : Gedankliche und geschichtliche Genesis
• Der Standpunkt des Proletariats
• Die Hürde des Unmittelbaren : Bourgeoise und proletarische Erkenntnis : die Objektivität der Vermittlungen : Gedankliche und geschichtliche Genesis
• Das Selbstbewusstsein der Ware : die Selbsterkenntnis des Proletariats und die ökonomische Struktur der Gesellschaft : Bourgeois und Proletarier als Subjekt und Objekt : Warenproduktion, Verdinglichung und Klassenbewusstsein
• Dialektisches im proletarischen Klassenbewusstsein : die Intention auf die Totalität der Gesellschaft : Mechanische und dialektische Notwendigkeit : Dinge und Prozesse in antiker und marxistischer Dialektik
• Die "höhere Wirklichkeit" : Tatsachen und Tendenzen
• Marxismus und Anthropologie : Klasse als Geschichtssubjekt
• Die Überwindung der Verdinglichung : Abbild von Prozessen? die konstitutive Funktion des proletarischen Bewusstseins : Dualität und Identität von Sein und Bewusstsein im realen Geschichtsprozess : die "freie Tat" des Proletariats
• Zur "Frage der dialektischen Methode"
• Die causa "Subjekt-Objekt" (I)
• Philosophiegeschichtliche Ansätze
• Subjekt und Objekt in Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein : Zusammenfassung
• Kritik und Gegenkritik
• 1924 : Arbeiterliteratur
• 1925-26 : Chvostismus und Dialektik
• Die causa "Subjekt-Objekt" (II)
• 1926 : "Moses Hess und die Probleme der idealistischen Dialektik"
• 1933 : "Wie ist die faschistische Ideologie in Deutschland entstanden?"
• 1934 : "Die Bedeutung von 'Materialismus und Empiriokritizismus' für die Bolschewisierung der kommunistischen Parteien"
• 1930-38 : "Der junge Hegel : über die Beziehungen von Dialektik und Ökonomie"
• 1967 : "Vorwort"
• 1964-70 : "Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins"
• Fazit
• Abkürzungsverzeichnis
• Literaturverzeichnis.

• Zur Einleitung
• Ein Leben als Revolutionär hinter Büchern
• Das Werk in Grundzügen
• Der Schlüssel des Frühwerks : Pressefreiheit und Perspektivismus
• Religionskritik
• Kritik der Politik
• Die Struktur des Spätwerks
• Arbeit und Existenz : die Feinstruktur ökonomischer Entfremdung
• Kritische Theorie der Gesellschaft : Dynamische Sozialontologie
• Politische Ökonomie als Politik des Erwachens
• Ausbeutungstheorie und der tendenzielle Fall der Profitrate
• Folgen in der Politik
• Die Grenzen des Reformismus
• Alternative politische Ziele und die Ambivalenz des Politischen
• Weiterungen des Politischen : Feminismus, Ökologie und Postkolonialismus
• Folgen in der Kultur
• Marxsche Monsterkunde : Vampire sind unter uns!
• Cyborgs : "Mechanische Ungeheuer" in Terminator und Star Trek
• Robocop und der neue Geist des Kapitalismus
• Ausblick
• Literatur.

• Acknowledgments Foreword - Lise Vogel
• 1. Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory - Tithi Bhattacharya
• 2. Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism - Nancy Fraser
• 3. Without Reserves - Salar Mohandesi & Emma Teitelman
• 4. How Not to Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class - Tithi Bhattacharya
• 5. Intersections and Dialectics: Critical Reconstructions in Social Reproduction Theory - David McNally
• 6. Children, Childhood and Capitalism: A Social Reproduction Perspective - Susan Ferguson
• 7. Mostly Work, Little Play: Social Reproduction, Migration and Paid Domestic Work in Montreal - Carmen Teeple Hopkins
• 8. Pensions and Social Reproduction - Serap Saritas Oran
• 9. Body Politics: The Social Reproduction of Sexualities - Alan Sears
• 10. From Social Reproduction Feminism to the Women's Strike - Cinzia Arruzza Notes Index.
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This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship between economic exploitation and social oppression. In this book, leading writers such as Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, David McNally and Susan Ferguson reveal the ways in which daily and generational reproductive labour, found in households, schools, hospitals and prisons, also sustains the drive for accumulation. Presenting a more sophisticated alternative to intersectionality, these essays provide ideas which have important strategic implications for anti-capitalists, anti-racists and feminists attempting to find a path through the seemingly ever more complex world we live in.
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• 1. Failures and Acheivements of the Past2. Which Revolution?3. Peaceful Transition4. Globalization and Socialism in One Country5. Which Socialism?6. Social Classes7. Practical Steps.
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Through a series of conversations with prominent theorists and leading political activists in different parts of the world, this book explores the causes of the setbacks of both the reformist and revolutionary strategies of the socialist Left. Addressing the larger questions around the agenda(s) of socialism in the era of globalization, the interviewees believe that capitalism is not sustainable in the long run, due largely to its inherent contradictions, and that a post-capitalist social world order is inevitable and attainable. Despite notable differences, what emerges from this collection of voices and perspectives is a unified call to mobilize and organize for radical change through engagement with the various social groups that could play instrumental roles in the transition beyond a capitalist social formation.
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• Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Wissenschaft zur Tat
• Die Entwicklung der Weltrevolution und die Taktik der kommunistischen Parteien im Kampfe um die Diktatur des Proletariats
• Theorie und Praxis der 2 1/2 Internationale
• Der Kampf der Kommunistischen Internationale gegen Versailles und gegen die Offensive des Kapitals
• Das Abflauen der Offensive des Kapitals und die Aufgaben der Kommunistischen Internationale
• Leo Schlageter, der Wanderer ins Nichts.

• Vorwort / von Johannes Schillo
• Die Marxsche Kapitalismuskritik : und was die neue Maix-Lektiire (nicht) dazu beiträgt / Uwe F. Findeisen
• Die Warenform der Produkte
• Gesetze der Kapitalentwicklung : eine kurze Übersicht
• Marx neu gelesen : Hinwendung als Abwendung
• Antimaixismus heute / Johannes Schillo
• Marx als Linksextremist
• Exkurs : Marxismus : eine Ersatzreligion?
• Ein Sonderfall von Extremismus
• Gegen Marx im Namen sozialer Demokratie
• Christliches Menschenbild und Personalität
• Wozu der ganze Aufwand?
• Die Aktualität der Maixschen Religionskritik / Johannes Schillo
• Die Marxsche Position
• Die moderne Revision
• Die aktuelle Gemengelage
• Was bleibt?
• Zur marxistischen Debatte über Staat und Wirtschaft / Ulrich Irion
• Demokratie und Kapitalismus
• Echte Demokratie?
• Arbeit und Reichtum
• Armut und Sozialstaat : ein Streiflicht / Manfred Henle
• Eine kaiserliche Botschaft
• Eine seltsame Ware : Arbeitskraft
• Standort und Sozialstaat
• Der Sozialstaat im 21. Jahrhundert
• Das Kapital im 19., 20. und 21. Jahrhundert : Thomas Piketty und die neuere Armutsforschung / Johannes Schillo
• Armut : negiert, ignoriert und wiederentdeckt
• Die "Rückkehr der sozialen Frage"
• Piketty und die soziale Ungleichheit
• Was verdient Ackermann? Bloß keine Gerechtigkeitsdebatte! : die deutschen Manager verdienen, was sie verdienen : ein Exkurs von Freerk Huisken
• Quintessenz : Antimarxismus
• Hans-Jörg Tauchert : "Überholen ohne einzuholen" : Ist der Kapitalismus unübertrefflich? / Statt eines Nachworts
• Das Ende der Geschichte
• Ein Treppenwitz der Weltgeschichte.

• Prologue : L'avenir d'une alternative
• La rencontre avec le communisme
• De Marx à Lénine
• Le phénomène totalitaire
• Hypothèse communiste, le retour ?
• De quoi la crise est-elle le nom ?
• Fin ou reconduction de la logique impériale ?
• Déconstruction du capitalisme
• Pourquoi nous n'en avons pas fini avec la politique
• Conclusion : À la recherche d'un pacte perdu ?

"On croyait que le communisme s'était définitivement effondré avec la chute du mur de Berlin et que la démocratie libérale avait gagné la partie. Voilà qu'avec la crise sans précédent que nous traversons, le champ des possibles se redistribue. La démocratie est-elle irrémédiablement captive du capitalisme ou peut-elle se réinventer pour répondre au défi de la mondialisation ? Dans un dialogue inédit et exclusif, Alain Badiou, figure de proue de la gauche radicale et principal avocat de l'idée communiste, et Marcel Gauchet, représentant majeur de l'antitotalitarisme et défenseur de la démocratie libérale, se confrontent. Ensemble, ils font le bilan de l'Histoire et opposent leurs projets respectifs : d'un côté, la réactualisation de "l'hypothèse communiste", de l'autre, la réforme en profondeur d'un modèle démocratique contesté."--P. [4] of cover.

In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're in? It is as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of capitalism has become inexorable, the only game in town. Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, Slavoj Zizek explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles. Drawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx, The Dark Knight to Thatcher, Trouble in Paradise is an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new order to come. "The most dangerous philosopher in the West". (Adam Kirsch, New Republic). "The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades". (Terry Eagleton). "Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation". (New Yorker). Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, including Less Than Nothing, Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce and, most recently, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously.
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• Repräsentationskrise, Staat, neue politische Subjekte
• Demokratie neu denken : die rätedemokratische Debatte und ihre politische Relevanz heute / Klaus Meschkat
• Von der Demokratie der Straße zu den Consejos Comunales : "Demokratie von unten" in Venezuela / Andrés Antillano
• Der politische Prozess in Bolivien : Dilemmata und Spannungen zwischen Staat und sozialen Bewegungen / Patricia Chávez
• Von Konstellationen und Hegemonien : über die Notwendigkeit, zwischen Linksregierungen und emanzipatorischer Politik zu unterscheiden / Raul Zelik
• Soziale Bewegungen in Lateinamerika : zwischen der Form "Gemeinschaft" und der Form "Staat" / Leopoldo Múnera
• Radikaler Reformismus : zur Rolle des Staates in gesellschaftlichen Emanzipationsprozessen / Joachim Hirsch
• Alternativen zur Entwicklung, solidarische Ökonomie und Gemeineigentum
• Temporäre Versprechen : der Wechsel im Akkumulationsregime in Ecuador : Vorhaben und Praxis der "Bürgerrevolution" / Pablo Ospina Peralta
• Wachstum, Energiemodell und Kapitalakkumulation nach Fukushima / Elmar Altvater
• Zur politischen Ökonomie der Sozialpolitik in Lateinamerika : Reflexionen über die progressiven Regierungen des Subkontinents / Jairo Estrada Álvarez
• Peer production & Commonism : von der freien Softwarebewegung zur "freien Assoziation der Produzentinnen"? / Christian Siefkes
• Argentiniens besetzte Betriebe : das emanzipatorische Potenzial und die Grenzen der Arbeiterkontrolle / Aaron Tauss
• Autorinnen und Autoren.

• Preface--
• 1. The curse revisited: the dynamics of social change in China--
• 2. Circle on the outside, square on the inside--
• 3. Socialism with Huaxi characteristics--
• 4. Capitalism reborn or collectivism rediscovered--
• 5. Back to the future: community capitalism and the search for alternatives.
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Hou proposes to end the dichotomous view of the state and the market, and capitalism and communism, by examining the local institutional innovation in three villages in China and presents community capitalism as an alternative to the neoliberal model of development. Community is both the unit of redistribution and the entity that mobilizes resources to compete in the market; collectivism creates the boundary that sets the community apart from the outside and justifies and sustains the model. Community capitalism differs from Mao-era collectivism, when individual interests were buried in the name of collective interests and market competition was not a concern. This book demonstrates the embeddedness of the market in community, showing how social relations, group solidarity, power, honor, and other values play an important role in these villages' social and economic organization.
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• Die Linke und der 'real existierende Sozialismus' / Bini Adamczak
• Socialism, for real? : Träume, Begriffe, Geschichten
• Linke und Realsozialismus / Hauke Benner
• Wie können wir selber produzieren, die Maschinen verändern und die Arbeit anders organisieren, wenn wir die Macht haben, selbst zu bestimmen? / Willi Hajek
• Die Linke und der real-existierende Sozialismus : Gegenerinnerung und konkrete Utopie / Elfriede Müller
• Sechs Thesen zum langen Schatten des Stalinismus / Christoph Jünke
• Linke in Deutschland und der 'real existierende Sozialismus' in der DDR / Thomas Klein
• Das Verhältnis des realen Sozialismus zur kommunistischen Bewegung heute / Dr. Monika Runge
• Die Linke oder : die liebevolle Pflege selbstverschuldeter Unmündigkeit / Jörn Schütrumpf
• Wie sozialistisch war der 'real existierende Sozialismus'?
• 'Sozialismus in den Farben der DDR' : Partei, Staat, bürokratische Kaste (Versuch zur Strukturanalyse des gesche terten Systems) / Helmut Bock
• Wie sozialistisch war der 'real-existierende Sozialismus'? : oder : es ist nicht immer drin, was draufsteht / Renate Hürtgen
• 'SozialiXmus : eine Gleichung mit zwei Bekannten' / Ralf G. Landmesser
• 'Mein Staat DDR' und die Alternativen / Anne Seeck
• Raus aus dem Kapitalismus : aber wohin? : Konkrete Utopien heute
• Kommunismus : die Selbstkritik des Kapitals! / Frank Engster
• Das Kapital : die entfremdete Form der Kommune aus sieben Milliarden / Christian Frings
• Sozialismus nach dem 'real existierenden Sozialismus' : ein Blick zurück nach vorn / Bernd Gehrke
• Schwierigkeiten mit dem Kommunismus / Sebastian Gerhardt
• Was tun mit Kommunismus? : Mitkämpfen! : die Chancen der sozialen Weltrevolution in der Krise der Innovationsoffensive / Detlef Hartmann
• Wohin vom Kapitalismus aus? / Lucy Redler
• Kommunismus? : Emanzipation! Was sonst? / Dr. Michael Wilk
• Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren.

• Avant-propos : Un itinéraire
• Préface : Marx quand même
• Défaire les préjugés
• Déjouer les illusions
• "Descendre du ciel sur la terre"
• Le décryptage des apparences
• Le soupçon qui affranchit
• Le point de vue de l'exploité
• L'"Eden des droits de l'homme"
• L'"opium du peuple"
• Comprendre le monde
• "Les eaux glacées du calcul égoïste"
• Un monde désenchanté ?
• La "main invisible" et la fabulation libérale
• La lutte des classes hier et aujourd'hui
• Le fétichisme de l'argent
• Les dividendes du chômage
• Transformer le monde
• "Les communards sont montés à l'assaut du ciel"
• Le possible et l'idéal. Un réalisme critique
• "Rendons les circonstances plus humaines"
• Communisme : le mot et l'idée
• La "classe universelle"
• Individu et communauté
• Changer la donne
• Réinventer la politique
• Le social et le politique
• Etat et liberté : la fin de la lutte des classes
• La souveraineté populaire : une conquête inachevée
• La démocratie prise au mot
• La leçon de la Commune de Paris
• Marx critique de Staline
• Penser l'écologie : Marx à l'avant-garde
• L'homme et la nature. Un communisme naturaliste
• Une amère victoire. Les diagnostics de Marx et d'Engels
• Les marées noires du libéralisme. Les "droits à polluer"
• Quelle maîtrise de la nature ?
• La terre comme bien commun : vers l'écologie sociale
• Marx contre le productivisme
• Promouvoir l'émancipation
• Penser la mondialisation capitaliste
• Quand le ciel nous tombe sur la tête
• Le coût social du capitalisme. Qui assiste qui?
• L'ère des régressions
• Perspective : la dialectique de l'émancipation
• Horizon : la République laïque et sociale
• Conclusion : Marx revient...
• Principaux textes cités de Marx et d'Engels
• Index rerum
• Index nominum.

"Étrange époque... Jamais l'humanité n'a produit autant de richesses ; pourtant de nouvelles formes de misère côtoient l'opulence des maîtres du monde. L'argent-roi, les inégalités accrues, les désastres écologiques, les peuples exclus des décisions, le tout couvert par l'invocation incantatoire des droits de l'homme... Penseur visionnaire, Marx décrit la mondialisation capitaliste telle que nous la vivons. Une mondialisation qui "épuise la terre et le travailleur" et noie l'humain "dans les eaux glacées du calcul égoïste". La religion y devient "supplément d'âme d'un monde sans âme", voire source de fanatisme identitaire. À rebours des compensations illusoires et des nationalismes haineux, Marx en appelle à la solidarité de tous les peuples. À exploitation mondialisée, résistance mondialisée. Il crée la première Internationale, levier de conquêtes sociales. Marx ouvre ainsi la voie de l'émancipation universelle. Redécouvrons-le, affranchi de sa caricature stalinienne, qui fut une sinistre trahison de son idéal de justice. Il se révèle d'une singulière actualité."--P. [4] of cover.

• Acknowledgements--
• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Marxism after the Discursive Turn--
• 3. Jouissance and Politics--
• 4. Universality and the Trauma of the Real--
• 5. Zizek's Capitalism: What can Sexual Difference tell us about new forms of Apartheid?--
• 6. Zizek's Realpolitics--
• 7. The Communist Hypothesis: Zizekian Utopia or Utopia Fantasy?--
• 8. Conclusion--
• 9. References.
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ae'iae'ek's communism: revolutionary terror or Utopian jouissance? Good theory; bad politics - this is how ae'iae'ek's works have been described. Now Chris McMillan argues that ae'iae'ek's reading of global capitalism could reinvent political subversion. He highlights the political consequences of ae'iae'ek's fundamental concepts, such as the Lacanian Real, universality and the communist hypothesis. He argues that ae'iae'ek's turn to Communism represents the ultimate significance of ae'iae'ek's work for the 21st century and a marked new direction for ae'iae'ekian theory. While ae'iae'ek's work attracts a lot of labels, most of them pejorative - communist, conservative, anti-semantic - Chris McMillan identifies ae'iae'ek's unique and productive contribution to social and political theory, constructing his work as a response to the difficulties of contemporary social theory and the political deadlock of global capitalism. Key Features: * Summarises key applications of psychoanalytic theory to politics and shared social life * Produces a sustained reading of ae'iae'ek's understanding of the economy and capitalism * Considers the specific value of ae'iae'ek's work as a form of political action * Responds to ae'iae'ek's recent reference to the communist hypothesis and 'egalitarian justice'.
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• Rosa Luxemburgo : espontaneidad revolucionaria e internacionalismo
• Cuestionario sobre lo político
• 1898
• A la izquierda
• Modernidad y capitalismo (15 tesis)
• Modernidad y revolución
• Lo político en la política
• Violencia y modernidad
• El sentido del siglo XX
• Lejanía y cercanía del "Manifiesto comunista" a ciento cincuenta años de su publicación
• La nación posnacional
• Chiapas y la Conquista inconclusa : entrevista con Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas
• ¿Ser de izquierda, hoy?.

• Editor's Preface vii Acknowledgments xiii
• Part One: Luck Egalitarianism
• Chapter One: On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice 3 Chapter Two: Equality of What? On Welfare, Goods, and Capabilities 44 Afterword to Chapters One and Two 61 Chapter Three: Sen on Capability, Freedom, and Control 73 Chapter Four: Expensive Taste Rides Again 81 Chapter Five: Luck and Equality 116 Chapter Six: Fairness and Legitimacy in Justice, And: Does Option Luck Ever Preserve Justice? 124
• Part Two: Freedom and Property
• Chapter Seven: Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat 147 Chapter Eight: Freedom and Money 166 Two Addenda to "Freedom and Money" 193
• Part Three: Ideal Theory and Political Practice
• Chapter Nine: Mind the Gap 203 Chapter Ten: Back to Socialist Basics 211 Chapter Eleven: How to Do Political Philosophy 225 Chapter Twelve: Rescuing Justice from Constructivism and Equality from the Basic Structure Restriction 236 Works Cited 255 Index 263.
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G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes to realize those plans. Drawing on three decades of work, it contains previously uncollected articles that have shaped many of the central debates in political philosophy, as well as papers published here for the first time. In these pieces, Cohen asks what egalitarians have most reason to equalize, he considers the relationship between freedom and property, and he reflects upon ideal theory and political practice. Included here are classic essays such as "Equality of What?" and "Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat, " along with more recent contributions such as "Fairness and Legitimacy in Justice, " "Freedom and Money, " and the previously unpublished "How to Do Political Philosophy." On ample display throughout are the clarity, rigor, conviction, and wit for which Cohen was renowned. Together, these essays demonstrate how his work provides a powerful account of liberty and equality to the left of Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Isaiah Berlin.
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• Editor's Preface vii Acknowledgments xiii
• Part One: Luck Egalitarianism
• Chapter One: On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice 3 Chapter Two: Equality of What? On Welfare, Goods, and Capabilities 44 Afterword to Chapters One and Two 61 Chapter Three: Sen on Capability, Freedom, and Control 73 Chapter Four: Expensive Taste Rides Again 81 Chapter Five: Luck and Equality 116 Chapter Six: Fairness and Legitimacy in Justice, And: Does Option Luck Ever Preserve Justice? 124
• Part Two: Freedom and Property
• Chapter Seven: Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat 147 Chapter Eight: Freedom and Money 166 Two Addenda to "Freedom and Money" 193
• Part Three: Ideal Theory and Political Practice
• Chapter Nine: Mind the Gap 203 Chapter Ten: Back to Socialist Basics 211 Chapter Eleven: How to Do Political Philosophy 225 Chapter Twelve: Rescuing Justice from Constructivism and Equality from the Basic Structure Restriction 236 Works Cited 255 Index 263.
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G.A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes to realize those plans. Drawing on three decades of work, it contains previously uncollected articles that have shaped many of the central debates in political philosophy, as well as papers published here for the first time. In these pieces, Cohen asks what egalitarians have most reason to equalize, he considers the relationship between freedom and property, and he reflects upon ideal theory and political practice. Included here are classic essays such as "Equality of What?" and "Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat", along with more recent contributions such as "Fairness and Legitimacy in Justice", "Freedom and Money", and the previously unpublished "How to Do Political Philosophy". On ample display throughout are the clarity, rigor, conviction, and wit for which Cohen was renowned. Together, these essays demonstrate how his work provides a powerful account of liberty and equality to the left of Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Isaiah Berlin.
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• List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements In Memoriam: Vincent Kelly Pollard (1944-2010), David Fasenfest Foreword, Peter T. Manicas
• 1. State Capitalist Analysis-Before the Russian Revolution, in Reaction to Stalin's Consolidation of Power, and after the Cold War, Vincent Kelly Pollard
• 2. State Capitalism versus Communism: What Happened in the USSR?, Satya Gabriel, Stephen A. Resnick, and Richard D. Wolff
• 3. Labor, Exploitation and Capitalism in Russia before and after 1991, Michael J. Haynes
• 4. The `Russian Question' and the U.S. Left, Martin Oppenheimer
• 5. Planning and the Fate of Democracy: State, Capital, and Governance in Post-Independence India, D. Parthasarathy
• 6. What Happened to Chinese Communism: The Transition from State Feudalism to State Capitalism, Satya Gabriel, Stephen A. Resnick, and Richard D. Wolff
• 7. Labor Representation and Organization under State Capitalism in China, Jackie Sheehan
• 8. A Consideration of China's Incomplete Retreat from State Capitalism, Rumy Hasan
• 9. Chinese `Develop the West' Campaigns and their Environmental Impacts: The Post-Socialist Condition in China, Yuehtsen Juliette Chung
• 10. State Capitalist Aspirations and the Two-Stage Theory of Revolution in the Philippines, Vincent Kelly Pollard Index.
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State capitalism is back. It never went away. This book looks at the role of state capitalism in major European and Asian societies. It confronts neo-liberal pieties about the role of markets and private property in capitalist development and radical accounts which see the state as the antithesis of capitalism. State capitalism is a normal form of capitalist development. Its extremes may vary but it has been, and remains, central to an understanding of modern capitalism. This is especially the case in the so called Communist and Communist worlds of Russia and China, and for alternative economies like that of India and the Philippines, which are the focus of this timely and challenging book.
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In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises, "Why Marx Was Right" is as urgent and timely as it is brave and candid. Written with Eagleton's familiar wit, humour and clarity, it will attract an audience far beyond the confines of academia.
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• INTRODUCTION: Thinking about Jews and Capitalism 1 CHAPTER ONE: The Long Shadow of Usury Capitalism and the Jews in Modern European Thought 15 CHAPTER TWO: The Jewish Response to Capitalism Milton Friedman's Paradox Reconsidered 72 CHAPTER THREE: Radical Anticapitalism The Jew as Communist 133 CHAPTER FOUR: The Economics of Nationalism and the Fate of the Jews in Twentieth-Century Europe 189 Acknowledgments 219 Notes 225 Index 255.
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The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex - and so ambivalent. Drawing on economic, social, political, and intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, "Capitalism and the Jews" examines the ways in which thinking about capitalism and thinking about the Jews have gone hand in hand in European thought, and why anticapitalism and anti-Semitism have frequently been linked. The book explains why Jews have tended to be disproportionately successful in capitalist societies, but also why Jews have numbered among the fiercest anticapitalists and Communists. The book shows how the ancient idea that money was unproductive led from the stigmatization of usury and the Jews to the stigmatization of finance and, ultimately, in Marxism, the stigmatization of capitalism itself. Finally, the book traces how the traditional status of the Jews as a diasporic merchant minority both encouraged their economic success and made them particularly vulnerable to the ethnic nationalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a fresh look at an important but frequently misunderstood subject, "Capitalism and the Jews" will interest anyone who wants to understand the Jewish role in the development of capitalism, the role of capitalism in the modern fate of the Jews, or the ways in which the story of capitalism and the Jews has affected the history of Europe and beyond, from the medieval period to our own.
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• INTRODUCTION: Thinking about Jews and Capitalism 1 CHAPTER ONE: The Long Shadow of Usury Capitalism and the Jews in Modern European Thought 15 CHAPTER TWO: The Jewish Response to Capitalism Milton Friedman's Paradox Reconsidered 72 CHAPTER THREE: Radical Anticapitalism The Jew as Communist 133 CHAPTER FOUR: The Economics of Nationalism and the Fate of the Jews in Twentieth-Century Europe 189 Acknowledgments 219 Notes 225 Index 255.
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The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex - and so ambivalent. Drawing on economic, social, political, and intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, "Capitalism and the Jews" examines the ways in which thinking about capitalism and thinking about the Jews have gone hand in hand in European thought, and why anticapitalism and anti-Semitism have frequently been linked. The book explains why Jews have tended to be disproportionately successful in capitalist societies, but also why Jews have numbered among the fiercest anticapitalists and Communists. The book shows how the ancient idea that money was unproductive led from the stigmatization of usury and the Jews to the stigmatization of finance and, ultimately, in Marxism, the stigmatization of capitalism itself. Finally, the book traces how the traditional status of the Jews as a diasporic merchant minority both encouraged their economic success and made them particularly vulnerable to the ethnic nationalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a fresh look at an important but frequently misunderstood subject, "Capitalism and the Jews" will interest anyone who wants to understand the Jewish role in the development of capitalism, the role of capitalism in the modern fate of the Jews, or the ways in which the story of capitalism and the Jews has affected the history of Europe and beyond, from the medieval period to our own.
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• Part I: Red Holocaust: First wave
• 1. Dystopia
• 2. Twenty Million Souls
• 3. Colectivization and Terror-Starvation
• 4. The Great Terror
• 5. Gulag
• 6. Ethnic Cleansing
• 7. Captive Nations
• 8. Sword and Torch Part II Second Wave
• 9. Overlapping Empires
• 10. Killing Fields Part III The Sixth Commandment, Part IV Terror-Command Economy
• 12. Siege Mobilization
• 13. Asian Terror-Command
• 14. Terror-Free Command
• 15. Illusion of Progress Part V Red Holocaust Denial
• 16. Corpus Delicti
• 17. Presumption of Innocence
• 18. Justifiable Homicide
• 19. Beyond Good and Evil
• 20. Clemency and Retribution Part VI Hitler's and Hirohito's Holocausts
• 21. Genocide and Lethal Labor Exploitation Part VII After the Second Wave
• 22. Prospects.
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Twentieth and twenty-first century communism is a failed experiment in social engineering that needlessly killed approximately 60 million people and perhaps tens of millions more. These high crimes against humanity constitute a Red Holocaust that exceeds the combined carnage of the French Reign of Terror, Ha Shoah, Showa Japan's Asian holocaust, and all combat deaths in World War I and II. This fascinating book investigates high crimes against humanity in the Soviet Union, eastern and central Europe, North Korea, China, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia 1929-2009, and compares the results with Ha Shoah and the Japanese Asian Holocaust. As in other studies, blame is ascribed to political, ideological and personal causes, but special emphasis is given to internal contradictions in Marx's utopian model as well as Stalinist and post-Stalinist transition systems concocted to realize communist ends. This faulty economic engineering forms a bridge to the larger issue of communism's historical failure. The book includes: - a comprehensive study of the transcommunist holocaust - a judicial assessment of holocaust culpability and special pleadings - an obituary for Stalinism everywhere except North Korea, and a death watch for contemporary communism in China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba and Nepal - a comparative assessment of totalitarian high crimes against humanity - a call for memory as a defense against recurrent economic, racial and ethnic holocausts The book will be useful to undergraduate and higher level students interested in Russian history, Stalism, communism, North and South Korean economic performance and international affairs. Steven Rosefielde is a Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
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• Contents: Preface-- Introduction-- Accumulation of capital and uneven development-- Historical periodization and the current restructuring of capitalism-- The basic trends and characteristics of the emerging totalitarian capitalism-- The role of the state in historical perspective-- The role of technology in the reproduction and/or supersession of capitalism-- Environmental implications of capitalism and the preconditions of reconciliation with nature-- Moving beyond totalitarian capitalism: the prospects of Communism today-- Political guidelines for a society of associated producers-- Transnational prospects of social emancipation-- In place of an epilogue-- References-- Index.
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Anchored in contemporary debates on capitalism and political economy, this study reconsiders the major trends which are currently shaping a new stage of capitalism. With chapters examining globalization, the role of technology and environmental degradation, George Liodakis constructs a politico-economic approach on contemporary capitalism from within a classical Marxist framework of political economy.
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Anchored in contemporary debates on capitalism and political economy, this study reconsiders the major trends which are currently shaping a new stage of capitalism. With chapters examining globalization, the role of technology and environmental degradation, George Liodakis constructs a politico-economic approach on contemporary capitalism from within a classical Marxist framework of political economy. The volume provides a fitting balance between theory and empirical evidence and significantly enriches the existing scholarship on contemporary capitalism and the potential for social change. This is an important contribution to those interested in international political economy, in particular with developing a new political strategy for going beyond capitalism: a 'reinvention' of a communist perspective.
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• List of Tables Prologue: Bringing Theory to the Field Introduction: From Manchester to Berkeley by Way of Chicago
• 1. The Extended Case Method: Race and Class in Postcolonial Africa
• 2. The Ethnographic Revisit: Capitalism in Transition and Other Histories
• 3. Two Methods in Search of Revolution: Trotsky versus Skocpol
• 4. Multicase Ethnography: Tracking the Demise of State Socialism Conclusion: The Ethnography of Great Transformations Epilogue: On Public Ethnography Notes References.
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In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century - the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Burawoy's odyssey began in 1968 in the Zambian copper mines and proceeded to Chicago's South Side, where he worked as a machine operator and enjoyed a unique perspective on the stability of advanced capitalism.In the 1980s, this perspective was deepened by contrast with his work in diverse Hungarian factories. Surprised by the collapse of socialism in Hungary in 1989, he journeyed in 1991 to the Soviet Union, which by the end of the year had unexpectedly dissolved. He then spent the next decade studying how the working class survived the catastrophic collapse of the Soviet economy. These essays, presented with a perspective that has benefited from time and rich experience, offer ethnographers a theory and a method for developing novel understandings of epochal change.
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• List of Tables Prologue: Bringing Theory to the Field Introduction: From Manchester to Berkeley by Way of Chicago
• 1. The Extended Case Method: Race and Class in Postcolonial Africa
• 2. The Ethnographic Revisit: Capitalism in Transition and Other Histories
• 3. Two Methods in Search of Revolution: Trotsky versus Skocpol
• 4. Multicase Ethnography: Tracking the Demise of State Socialism Conclusion: The Ethnography of Great Transformations Epilogue: On Public Ethnography Notes References.
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In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century - the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Burawoy's odyssey began in 1968 in the Zambian copper mines and proceeded to Chicago's South Side, where he worked as a machine operator and enjoyed a unique perspective on the stability of advanced capitalism.In the 1980s, this perspective was deepened by contrast with his work in diverse Hungarian factories. Surprised by the collapse of socialism in Hungary in 1989, he journeyed in 1991 to the Soviet Union, which by the end of the year had unexpectedly dissolved. He then spent the next decade studying how the working class survived the catastrophic collapse of the Soviet economy. These essays, presented with a perspective that has benefited from time and rich experience, offer ethnographers a theory and a method for developing novel understandings of epochal change.
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• A guided tour through the museum of communism
• An interview with the oldest dog in Bucharest
• The cat-keeper in Warsaw (a letter to the prosecutor).

Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic here presents an unorthodox, imaginative take on the transition from Communism to capitalism in the former Soviet Union. Three characters - a dog, an underdog, and a cat - offer the reader narratives that reflect on life under Communism and what has followed in its wake. The first, "An Interview with the Oldest Dog in Bucharest, " is about a dog named Charlie, whose mother, Mimi, together with thousands of other pets, was thrown out into the street during the Ceausescu regime. In this interview, Charlie describes how not only people but animals, too, became victims during the destruction of downtown neighborhoods in Bucharest in order to build a pyramid-like 'Palace of the People'. In "A Guided Tour of the Museum of Communism, " a sixty-year-old souvenir vendor-cum-cleaning woman in Prague reflects upon the meaning of such a museum and concludes wryly that she herself is possibly the museum's best exhibit. Finally, "A Cat-keeper in Warsaw" describes an encounter with a person "of feline origin" who claims to be in possession of the cat-keeper called 'General' who declared martial law in Poland on December 13, 1981. The three stories are unified by powerful, but troubling questions: Are democracy and capitalism really a change for the better? Is the idea of social justice lost forever? Is there such a thing as collective responsibility? And how do we remember and understand our past?
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• Contents: Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Coherence of the Classical System
• Chapter 2 The inner contradictions of reform socialism
• Chapter 3 Market socialism? Socialist market economy?
• Chapter 4 The speed of transformation
• Chapter 5 The great transformation of Central Eastern Europe: Success and disappointment
• Chapter 6 What does "change of system" mean?
• Chapter 7 What can countries embarking on post-socialist transformation learn from the experiences so far?
• Chapter 8 The System Paradigm References Index.
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This title contains eight essays that are connected by various common strands. The most important one is the community of the main subject-matter: socialism, capitalism, democracy, change of system. These four expressions cover four phenomena of great and comprehensive importance. Each piece in the book deals with these and the connections between them. One of the Leitmotifs is the 'capitalism/socialism' pair of opposites. Capitalism has a history of several hundred years, while the socialist regime existed only for a few decades. But this pair of opposites was central to the history of the twentieth century. This antagonism put its stamp on political thinking, on the foreign policy and military preparedness of every country, and on some appallingly destructive armed conflicts.All these had great secondary influence on each country's economic development and the standard of living and disposition of its inhabitants. None of the studies is confined to one country - not to Hungary or to any other. Each tries to embrace the problems common to greater units. However, the greater unit comprehended is not the same in each study. One may deal with the capitalist or socialist system in general, another will all the post-socialist countries, and a third the Central East European region. But all extend the analysis beyond the borders of one country.
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• Contents: Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Coherence of the Classical System
• Chapter 2 The inner contradictions of reform socialism
• Chapter 3 Market socialism? Socialist market economy?
• Chapter 4 The speed of transformation
• Chapter 5 The great transformation of Central Eastern Europe: Success and disappointment
• Chapter 6 What does "change of system" mean?
• Chapter 7 What can countries embarking on post-socialist transformation learn from the experiences so far?
• Chapter 8 The System Paradigm References Index.
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This title contains eight essays that are connected by various common strands. The most important one is the community of the main subject-matter: socialism, capitalism, democracy, change of system. These four expressions cover four phenomena of great and comprehensive importance. Each piece in the book deals with these and the connections between them. One of the Leitmotifs is the 'capitalism/socialism' pair of opposites. Capitalism has a history of several hundred years, while the socialist regime existed only for a few decades. But this pair of opposites was central to the history of the twentieth century. This antagonism put its stamp on political thinking, on the foreign policy and military preparedness of every country, and on some appallingly destructive armed conflicts.All these had great secondary influence on each country's economic development and the standard of living and disposition of its inhabitants. None of the studies is confined to one country - not to Hungary or to any other. Each tries to embrace the problems common to greater units. However, the greater unit comprehended is not the same in each study. One may deal with the capitalist or socialist system in general, another will all the post-socialist countries, and a third the Central East European region. But all extend the analysis beyond the borders of one country.
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