aToday MA(c)szArosas theoretical insights are becoming a material
force, gripping the masses through various world-historical
including Venezuelan President Hugo ChAvez.a
--John Bellamy Foster, editor, "Monthly Review"
An extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of
the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, The Challenge
and Burden of Historical Time represents a breakthrough in the
development of socialist thought. It can be seen both as a
companion volume to his earlier pathbreaking "Beyond Capital" and a
major theoretical contribution in its own right. Its focus is on
the adecapitation of historical timea in todayas capitalism and the
necessity of a new asocialist time accountancya as a revolutionary
response to the debilitating present.
Extending MA(c)szArosas earlier analysis of capitalism as a
social-metabolic system caught in an irreversible structural
crisis, it represents a crushing refutation of the view that athere
is no alternativea to the current social order. MA(c)szArosas
wide-ranging analysis explores the forces behind the expansion of
world inequality, the return of imperial interventionism, the
growing structural crisis of the capitalist state, and the widening
planetary ecological crisis--along with the new hope offered by the
reemergence of concrete socialist alternatives.
At the heart of his book is an examination of the preconditions
of Latin Americaas historic Bolivarian journey, which is producing
new revolutionary transformations in Venezuela, Bolivia and
elsewhere. The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time is a work of
great political as well as philosophical importance, one that
defines the challenges and burdens facingall those who are
committed to a more rational, more egalitarian future.
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