The fragile juggernaut: Marx & Engels on capitalism, class struggle and crisis

"Whether loving or hating it, many visualize capitalism as an unstoppable juggernaut. For those of us who would defeat it, we must identify its weaknesses. Fortunately, Marx and Engels' writings on "crisis" reveal them. They show how its endless imposition of exploitative and ali...

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1. Verfasser: Cleaver, Harry 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2025]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in political economy of global labor and work volume 6
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Zusammenfassung:"Whether loving or hating it, many visualize capitalism as an unstoppable juggernaut. For those of us who would defeat it, we must identify its weaknesses. Fortunately, Marx and Engels' writings on "crisis" reveal them. They show how its endless imposition of exploitative and alienating work creates such antagonistic conflicts everywhere as to make it, ultimately, a far more fragile monster than it first appears. Each of its efforts to shape social relationships, subordinating them to the work of commodity production and its control over society, has been and can be thrown into crisis by those of us resisting its way of life and seeking to create more appealing alternatives"--
This book provides a new interpretation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels writings on crisis that reveals how class struggle creates the possibilities of rupture and constitutes the central disruptive force in every moment of the capitalist organization of society
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVIII, 554 Seiten
ISBN:9789004708365

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