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The Psychopathology of American Capitalism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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The Psychopathology of American Capitalism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
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This book synthesizes psychoanalytic and Marxist techniques in
order to illuminate the resistance to a socialization of the
American economy, the protectionist discourses of anomalous
American capitalism, and the suppression of the capitalist welfare
state. After the Second World War, Democrats and Republicans
effectively eliminated the communist and socialist parties from the
American political spectrum and suppressed their allied labor
movements. The right-wing shift of both parties fabricated a false
opposition of left and right that does not correspond to political
oppositions in the industrialized democracies. Marxist perspectives
can account for the massive inequality of the political economy,
but they are insufficient for illuminating its preservation.
Psychoanalysis is necessary in order to explain why Americans
continue to vote within a two-party system that neglects the lower
classes, and why the working class tends to vote against its own
interests. The psychoanalytic techniques employed include doubling,
repetition, displacement, condensation, inversion, denial,
fetishizing, and cognitive repression. In examining the fixation
upon the proxy binary of Democrat vs. Republican, which suppresses
the true opposition of left vs. right and neutralizes alternatives,
the work analyses numerous contemporary political issues through
applications of Marxist psychoanalytic theory.
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