The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time - Socialism in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2008
First published:	August 2008
Authors:	Istvan Meszaros
Foreword by:	John Bellamy Foster
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	480
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-58367-169-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
LSN:	1-58367-169-2
Barcode:	9781583671696

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