The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly
polarized and impoverished world, to the point that the vast
majority of its citizens require liberation from their present
socioeconomic circumstances. The marxist theorist Kenneth Surin
contends that innovation and change at the level of the political
must occur in order to achieve this liberation, and for this
endeavor marxist theory and philosophy are indispensable. In
"Freedom Not Yet," Surin analyzes the nature of our current global
economic system, particularly with regard to the plight of less
developed countries, and he discusses the possibilities of creating
new political subjects necessary to establish and sustain a
liberated world.
Surin begins by examining the current regime of
accumulation--the global domination of financial markets over
traditional industrial economies--which is used as an instrument
for the subordination and dependency of poorer nations. He then
moves to the constitution of subjectivity, or the way humans are
produced as social beings, which he casts as the key arena in which
struggles against dispossession occur. Surin critically engages
with the major philosophical positions that have been posed as
models of liberation, including Derrida's notion of reciprocity
between a subject and its other, a reinvigorated militancy in
political reorientation based on the thinking of Badiou and Zizek,
the nomad politics of Deleuze and Guattari, and the politics of the
multitude suggested by Hardt and Negri. Finally, Surin specifies
the material conditions needed for liberation from the economic,
political, and social failures of our current system. Seeking to
illuminate a route to a better life for the world's poorer
populations, Surin investigates the philosophical possibilities for
a marxist or neo-marxist concept of liberation from capitalist
exploitation and the regimes of power that support it.
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