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