Transcending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury
American social theorists came to believe it was no longer
meaningful to describe modern Western society as "capitalist," but
instead preferred alternative terms such as "postcapitalist,"
"postindustrial," or "technological." Considering the discussion
today of capitalism and its global triumph, it is important to
understand why a prior generation of social theorists imagined the
future of advanced societies not in a fixed capitalist form but in
some course of development leading beyond capitalism.Howard Brick
locates this postcapitalist vision within a long history of social
theory and ideology. He challenges the common view that American
thought and culture utterly succumbed in the 1940s to a
conservative cold war consensus that put aside the reform ideology
and social theory of the early twentieth century. Rather,
expectations of the shift to a new social economy persisted and
cannot be disregarded as one of the elements contributing to the
revival of dissenting thought and practice in the 1960s.Rooted in a
politics of social liberalism, this vision held influence for
roughly a half century, from its interwar origins until the right
turn in American political culture during the 1970s and 1980s. In
offering a historically based understanding of American
postcapitalist thought, Brick also presents some current
possibilities for reinvigorating critical social thought that
explores transitional developments beyond capitalism.
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