The Structural Crisis of Capital

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In this collection of trenchant essays and interviews, István Mészáros, the world’s preeminent Marxist philosopher and winner of the 2008 Libertador Award for Critical Thought (the Bolivar Prize), lays bare the exploitative structure of modern capitalism. He argues with great power that the world’s economies are on a social and ecological precipice, and that unless we take decisive action to radically transform our societies we will find ourselves thrust headfirst into barbarism and environmental catastrophe. Mészáros, however, is no pessimist. He believes that the multiple crises of world capitalism will encourage the working class to demand center stage in the construction of a new system of production and distribution designed to meet human needs rather than serve the relentless pursuit of profit—a struggle which is already underway in places such as Venezuela. As John Bellamy Foster says in the foreword to this indispensable book, “Today the structural crisis of capital provides the historical setting for a new revolutionary movement for social emancipation in which developments normally taking centuries would flit by like phantoms in decades or even years. But the force for such necessary, vital change, remains with the people themselves, and rests on humanity’s willingness to constitute itself as both subject and object of history, through the collective struggle to create a just and sustainable world. This, Mészáros insists, constitutes the unprecedented challenge and burden of our historical time.”

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The Work of Sartre: Search for Freedom and the Challenge of History

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This landmark book, first published in 1979, met acclaim as a doubly important work of radical philosophy its subject, jean-paul sartre, was among the twentieth centurys most controversial and influential philosophers; its author, istván mészáros, was himself establishing a reputation for profound contributions to the marxian tradition, which would continue into the next century the work of sartre was thus considered essential for its insights on sartre and as a piece of mészáross developing politico-philosophical project in this completely updated and expanded volume, mészáros examines the manifold aspects of sartres legacy-as novelist, playwright, philosopher, and political actor-and in so doing casts light upon the entire oeuvre, situating it within the historical and social context of sartres time although critical of aspects of sartres philosophy, mészáros celebrates his unyielding commitment to the struggle against the power of capital, and elucidates what this means for the individual in their search for freedom

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Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume I: The Social Determination of Method by Istvan Meszaros (2010-02-01)

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The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century by Istvan Meszaros (2008-08-01)

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Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume I: The Social Determination of Method by Istvan Meszaros (2010-02-01)

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The Necessity of Social Control (The Isaac Deutscher Memorial Lecture) by Istvan Meszaros (1971-11-27)

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The Work of Sartre: Search for Freedom and the Challenge of History by Istvan Meszaros (2012-06-02)

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Work of Sartre: Search for Freedom (Philosophy Now Series)

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This work offers a comprehensive view of Sartre's achievements and the debates surrounding them. It traces the inner unity underlying the formal variations in his work, covering his life and going on to examine the major individual works. It also interprets Being and Nothingness.

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The Work of Sartre, Vol. 1: Search for Freedom (Harvester Philosophy Now)

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Philosophy, Ideology, and Social Science: Essays in Negation and Affirmation by Istvan Meszaros (1986-12-01)

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Historical Actuality of the Socialist Offensive: Alternative to Parliamentarism

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Historical Actuality of the Socialist Offensive: Alternative to Parliamentarism by Istvan Meszaros (2010-01-09)

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The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century

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An extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time represents a breakthrough in the development of socialist thought. It can be seen both as a companion volume to his earlier pathbreaking Beyond Capital and a major theoretical contribution in its own right. Its focus is on the “decapitation of historical time” in today’s capitalism and the necessity of a new “socialist time accountancy” as a revolutionary response to the debilitating present. Extending Mészáros’s earlier analysis of capitalism as a social-metabolic system caught in an irreversible structural crisis, it represents a crushing refutation of the view that “there is no alternative” to the current social order. Mészáros’s wide-ranging analysis explores the forces behind the expansion of world inequality, the return of imperial interventionism, the growing structural crisis of the capitalist state, and the widening planetary ecological crisis—along with the new hope offered by the reemergence of concrete socialist alternatives. At the heart of his book is an examination of the preconditions of Latin America’s historic Bolivarian journey, which is producing new revolutionary transformations in Venezuela, Bolivia and elsewhere. The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time is a work of great political as well as philosophical importance, one that defines the challenges and burdens facing all those who are committed to a more rational, more egalitarian future.

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