The capitalist mode of destruction (eBook)

Austerity, ecological crisis and the hollowing out of democracy

Costas Panayotakis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
224 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4453-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book investigates capitalism’s mounting destructiveness. Tracing today’s economic, ecological and democratic crises to capitalism’s undemocratic use of the surplus, Panayotakis highlights the necessity of a democratic classless society, which would restore control of the surplus to those who produce it.

Autor

Costas Panayotakis is Professor of Sociology at the New York City College of Technology at the City University of New York

Inhalt

Confronting the capitalist virus: A prefatory note

Introduction
1 Rethinking the Surplus
2 Surplus and Freedom
3 Capital’s Real Subsumption of Consumption
4 Consumerism and Capital’s Use of Science and Technology to Undercut Democracy
5 Capitalism as a Force of Destruction
6 Futile Growth and Mounting Destruction: The Need to Rethink Contemporary Capitalism’s Contradictions
7 The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy and the Continuing Relevance of the Communist Ideal
Conclusion: Rethinking the Relationship Between Capitalism, Communism and Democracy

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Geopolitical Economy
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Austerity • Capitalism • communism • Consumerism • Democracy • Ecology • Feminism • Neoliberalism • New Social Movements • surplus
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-4453-0 / 1526144530
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-4453-9 / 9781526144539