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Rupturing the Dialectic challenges the quietism found in economistic approaches to capitalism's current crises, providing working people with a clear and actionable program for progress. This insightful work is poised to benefit activists significantly. Cleaver's exploration of labor's value to capital, the role of money in mediating class conflicts, and strategies for resistance and transformation are exceptional. The book offers liberating perspectives on everyday life and financial crises within contemporary capitalism. It illustrates how Marx's labor theory of value can empower individuals to resist the subordination of their lives to labor, presenting a compelling analysis that transcends the capitalist dialectic instead of merely idealizing it. Harry Cleaver's earlier work, Reading Capital Politically, highlighted how capitalism structures our lives around work and how we continuously resist in ways that reshape the system. Rupturing the Dialectic updates this project, analyzing recent crises and showcasing how ordinary people can disrupt the system that exploits them. Cleaver, a university professor for three decades before his retirement in 2012, has seen his influential book republished in multiple languages and countries.
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Rupturing the Dialectic, Harry Cleaver
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- Titel
- Rupturing the Dialectic
- Untertitel
- The Struggle Against Work, Money, and Financialization
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Harry Cleaver
- Verlag
- AK Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2017
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 380
- ISBN10
- 1849352704
- ISBN13
- 9781849352703
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Handel, Wirtschaft & Management, Politikwissenschaft, Politik, Ökonomie, USA, Politische Theorien, Beschäftigung, Globalisierung, Kapitalismus, Politische Ökonomie
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- 4,35 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Rupturing the Dialectic challenges the quietism found in economistic approaches to capitalism's current crises, providing working people with a clear and actionable program for progress. This insightful work is poised to benefit activists significantly. Cleaver's exploration of labor's value to capital, the role of money in mediating class conflicts, and strategies for resistance and transformation are exceptional. The book offers liberating perspectives on everyday life and financial crises within contemporary capitalism. It illustrates how Marx's labor theory of value can empower individuals to resist the subordination of their lives to labor, presenting a compelling analysis that transcends the capitalist dialectic instead of merely idealizing it. Harry Cleaver's earlier work, Reading Capital Politically, highlighted how capitalism structures our lives around work and how we continuously resist in ways that reshape the system. Rupturing the Dialectic updates this project, analyzing recent crises and showcasing how ordinary people can disrupt the system that exploits them. Cleaver, a university professor for three decades before his retirement in 2012, has seen his influential book republished in multiple languages and countries.