The essays collected in this book reflect the author's conviction that the Marxist tradition can be kept alive as an essential political component of the Left not through dutiful conservation, but through ruthless recycling. The book draws lessons from the blind alleys to which Marxist thought led, and preserves and develops the most precious insights it contains. In particular, it spells out and defends the controversial notion of a "capitalist road to communism" that would remain true to the Marxian ideal while embracing capitalism.
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The essays collected in this book examine the structure and potential of historical materialism as a general theory of social change. They draw on the lessons of the failure of Marxist crisis theory, and show how a rejuvenated notion of exploitation can illuminate the analysis of the class structure of welfare state capitalism or the assessment of international migration.
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The constitutive claim of historical materialism, of the materialist conception of history, consists in giving an explanatory primacy to a social formation's 'material structure', i.e. to its productive forces (over its relationships of production) and to its economic base (over its super-structure). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primacy puzzle, textbook variant, weak abundance, universal grant, satiation set, citizenship exploitation, asset equalization, transitional rate, primacy thesis, organizational exploitation, strong abundance, abundance obtains, unconditional income, job assets, socialist exploitation, status exploitation, libertarian challenge, rising organic composition, constant real wage, feudal exploitation, unemployment trap, informal sphere, productive development, full communism, wealth exploitation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Van Parijs, New York, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Journal of Economics, New Left Review, Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the First International Conference, Working Paper, Critique of the Gotha Programme, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Kegan Paul, Making Sense of Marx, American Economic Review, Das Kapital, Hautes Etudes, Hemel Hempstead, Hillel Steiner, John Roemer, Jon Elster, Karl Marx's Theory of History, Monthly Review Press, Sciences Sociales, Acta Politica, Department of Economics, Harvard University Press New!
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The constitutive claim of historical materialism, of the materialist conception of history, consists in giving an explanatory primacy to a social formation's 'material structure', i.e. to its productive forces (over its relationships of production) and to its economic base (over its super-structure). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primacy puzzle, textbook variant, weak abundance, universal grant, satiation set, citizenship exploitation, asset equalization, transitional rate, primacy thesis, organizational exploitation, strong abundance, abundance obtains, unconditional income, job assets, socialist exploitation, status exploitation, libertarian challenge, rising organic composition, constant real wage, feudal exploitation, unemployment trap, informal sphere, productive development, full communism, wealth exploitation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Van Parijs, New York, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Journal of Economics, New Left Review, Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the First International Conference, Working Paper, Critique of the Gotha Programme, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Kegan Paul, Making Sense of Marx, American Economic Review, Das Kapital, Hautes Etudes, Hemel Hempstead, Hillel Steiner, John Roemer, Jon Elster, Karl Marx's Theory of History, Monthly Review Press, Sciences Sociales, Acta Politica, Department of Economics, Harvard University Press New!
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- Making Sense of Marx (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) by Jon Elster on 6 pages
- Modern Theories of Exploitation (SAGE Modern Politics series) by Andrew Reeve on 4 pages
- A General Theory of Exploitation and Class by John E. Roemer on 4 pages
- The Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited by Alec Nove on page 109, page 209, and page 232
- Critique of the Gotha Programme by KARL MARX on page 104, page 156, and Back Matter
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- Social Theory as Politics in Knowledge, Volume 23 (Current Perspectives in Social Theory) by Jennifer M. Lehmann on page 243, page 244, and page 246
- Real Libertarianism Assessed: Political Theory after Van Parijs by Andrew Reeve on page 11, and page 156
- Ecology and Historical Materialism (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) by Jonathan Hughes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Rethinking Liberal Equality: From a "Utopian" Point of View by Andrew Levine in Back Matter
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