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Class Theory and History takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, Resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now available. Their initial, and controversial, conclusion - Soviet industry never established a communist class structure - then leads to a discussion on the future of private capitalism, state capitalism and communism.
Takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, Resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now available, and use that theory to answer the question: did communism ever exist in the USSR and if so, where, why and for how long? Their initial, and controversial, conclusion: Soviet industry never established a communist class structure. This conclusion then leads to a discussion on the future of private capitalism, state capitalism and communism.
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning
national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is
fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors
to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various
senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that
many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a
conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic
and literary creativity involves the artist s dialogue with the
works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate
change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to
future generations."
Intense debates in recent decades have provoked major new
directions in Marxist theory. Earlier reductionist notions of
knowledge, dialectics, contradiction, class, and capitalism have
been challenged and profoundly transformed.
A systematic comparison of the three major economic theories,
showing how they differ and why these differences matter in shaping
economic theory and practice. Contending Economic Theories offers a
unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in
economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and
Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, yet
also differentiated from and compared to the other two theories.
The authors identify each theory's starting point, its goals and
foci, and its internal logic. They connect their comparative theory
analysis to the larger policy issues that divide the rival camps of
theorists around such central issues as the role government should
play in the economy and the class structure of production,
stressing the different analytical, policy, and social decisions
that flow from each theory's conceptualization of economics. The
authors, building on their earlier book Economics: Marxian versus
Neoclassical, offer an expanded treatment of Keynesian economics
and a comprehensive introduction to Marxian economics, including
its class analysis of society. Beyond providing a systematic
explanation of the logic and structure of standard neoclassical
theory, they analyze recent extensions and developments of that
theory around such topics as market imperfections, information
economics, new theories of equilibrium, and behavioral economics,
considering whether these advances represent new paradigms or
merely adjustments to the standard theory. They also explain why
economic reasoning has varied among these three approaches
throughout the twentieth century, and why this variation continues
today-as neoclassical views give way to new Keynesian approaches in
the wake of the economic collapse of 2008.
Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx?
Americans, especially now, confront serious questions and evidences
that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1%
far, far better than what it is doing to the vast mass of the
people. Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the
end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed
the transition to something better. We offer this essay now because
of the power and usefulness today of Marx's criticism of the
capitalist economic system. eBook: https://bit.ly/2K6iI8v
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning
national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is
fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors
to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various
senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that
many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a
conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic
and literary creativity involves the artist s dialogue with the
works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate
change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to
future generations."
An analysis of relationships between men and women that benefits
from the rich traditions of feminism and Marxism, and yet is free
from the economic, political and other determinisms that have been
so ubiquitous in those traditions. Drawing on new feminist and
Marxian theories, the authors connect the relationships of class,
gender and power inside modern households. The resulting new theory
establishes the initimate arena of the household as a centrally
important object of contemporary social analysis.
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Class And Its Others (Paperback)
J.K. Gibson-Graham; Contributions by Stephen A. Resnick, Richard D. Wolff
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A surprising and innovative look at class that proposes new
approaches to this important topic While references to gender,
race, and class are everywhere in social theory, class has not
received the kind of theoretical and empirical attention accorded
to gender and race. A welcome and much-needed corrective, this book
offers a novel theoretical approach to class and an active practice
of class analysis. The authors offer new and compelling ways to
look at class through examinations of such topics as sex work, the
experiences of African American women as domestic laborers, and
blue- and white-collar workers. Their work acknowledges that
individuals may participate in various class relations at one
moment or over time and that class identities are multiple and
changing, interacting with other aspects of identity in contingent
and unpredictable ways. The essays in the book focus on class
difference, class transformation and change, and on the
intersection of class, race, gender, sexuality, and other
dimensions of identity. They find class in seemingly unlikely
places-in households, parent-child relationships, and
self-employment-and locate class politics on the interpersonal
level as well as at the level of enterprises, communities, and
nations. Taken together, they will prompt a rethinking of class and
class subjectivity that will expand social theory. Contributors:
Enid Arvidson, U of Texas, Arlington; Jenny Cameron, Monash U,
Australia; Harriet Fraad; Janet Hotch; Susan Jahoda, U of
Massachusetts, Amherst; Amitava Kumar, U of Florida; Cecilia Marie
Rio; Jacquelyn Southern; Marjolein van der Veen.
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