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The overwhelming scientific evidence indicates that planet Earth is
in the process of undergoing dramatic climate change, which
threatens to undermine the quality of life around the world.
Irrationality of Capitalism and Climate Change demonstrates how the
roots of humanity's assault on the environment are directly
associated with the origins of capitalism, an irrational social
system in which reproduction of capital on a global scale is
destructive to the environment. The author begins with a
philosophical analysis of the role that reason and passion assume
in social systems., then traces the local and regional
environmental effects of preindustrial social systems. The author
argues that nations are faced with a global challenge, to construct
life-affirming policy that functions as an alternative to the
global devastation that the accumulation of capital causes. The
book concludes by proposing rational socialism, a life-affirming
social system that functions in harmony with the environment.
One Family: Before, During, and After the Holocaust, Third Edition,
written by the son of a survivor, revisits and expands the author's
research on his relatives while they lived in Poland, France,
Denmark and the U.S. Kolin draws on newly available secondary and
archival sources, successfully providing readers with a dynamic
portrait of this one family as a microcosm of what happened to
families throughout Europe during the Holocaust. He explores the
identities of his relatives not only as Jews, but also as workers
in specific sectors, from the slaughterhouses of Warsaw to the
leather workers and pocketbook makers of Paris. He traces the
political and military experiences of family members and how each
family wrestled with the decision of whether or not to emigrate and
whether or not to be politically active. The author describes how
his relatives responded to, and coped with, the unfolding of
anti-Jewish measures in Poland and France. He then traces how that
response, whether it was flight and/or resistance, affected their
ultimate fate.
This book presents a detailed explanation of the essential elements
that characterize capital labor relations and the resulting social
conflict that leads to repression of labor. It links repression to
the class struggle between capital and labor. The starting point
involves an historical approach used to explore labor repression
after the American Revolution. What follows is an examination of
the role of government along with the growth of American capitalism
to analyze capital-labor conflict. Subsequent chapters trace US
history during the 19th century to discuss the question of the role
assumed by the inclusion/exclusion of capital and labor in
political-economic structures, which in turn lead to repression.
Wholesale exclusion of labor from a fundamental role in framing
policy in these institutions was crucial in understanding the
unfolding of labor repression. Repression emerges amid a social
struggle to acquire and maintain control over policy-making bodies,
which pits the few against the many. In response, labor attempts to
push back against institutional exclusion in part by the formation
of labor unions. Capital reacts to such actions using repression to
prevent labor from having a greater role in social institutions.
For instance, this is played out inside the workplace as capital
and labor engage in a political struggle over the function of the
workplace. Given capital's monopoly of ownership, capital employs
various means to repress labor at work, including the introduction
of technology, mass firings, crushing strikes, and the use of force
to break up unions. The role of the state is not to be overlooked
in its support of elite control over production, as well as aiding
through legal means the growth of a capitalist economy in
opposition to labor's conception of greater economic democracy.
This book explains how and why labor continues to confront
repression in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This book presents a detailed explanation of the essential elements
that characterize capital labor relations and the resulting social
conflict that leads to repression of labor. It links repression to
the class struggle between capital and labor. The starting point
involves an historical approach used to explore labor repression
after the American Revolution. What follows is an examination of
the role of government along with the growth of American capitalism
to analyze capital-labor conflict. Subsequent chapters trace US
history during the 19th century to discuss the question of the role
assumed by the inclusion/exclusion of capital and labor in
political-economic structures, which in turn lead to repression.
Wholesale exclusion of labor from a fundamental role in framing
policy in these institutions was crucial in understanding the
unfolding of labor repression. Repression emerges amid a social
struggle to acquire and maintain control over policy-making bodies,
which pits the few against the many. In response, labor attempts to
push back against institutional exclusion in part by the formation
of labor unions. Capital reacts to such actions using repression to
prevent labor from having a greater role in social institutions.
For instance, this is played out inside the workplace as capital
and labor engage in a political struggle over the function of the
workplace. Given capital's monopoly of ownership, capital employs
various means to repress labor at work, including the introduction
of technology, mass firings, crushing strikes, and the use of force
to break up unions. The role of the state is not to be overlooked
in its support of elite control over production, as well as aiding
through legal means the growth of a capitalist economy in
opposition to labor's conception of greater economic democracy.
This book explains how and why labor continues to confront
repression in the 20th and 21st centuries.
State Structure and Genocide presents a theory of the universal
nature of genocide. The book explores why genocides occur in
various societies and explains the existence and persistence of
genocide in relation to how governments function. Professor Kolin
investigates how governments use violence in both the pre-genocidal
and genocidal stages. Through the use of case studies of genocide
throughout ancient and modern history, this study examines the
shift from pre-genocidal to genocidal society as the institutional
reorganization of the state. The theory presented in this book
provides evidence of how the state socializes a populace to accept
and support ever-increasing doses of violence. This normalization
of violence creates "social numbing." In addressing these, Kolin
presents a theory of how states are transformed from pre-genocidal
to genocidal stages, leading to the formation of a dual state. The
state ultimately becomes in part a genocidal state, assuming total
control as a police state, and uses violence without legal
restraint. An innovative concept, Kolin's State Structure and
Genocide will surely broaden the knowledge of political science.
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