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Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account (Historical Materialism Book Series)

By Tony Smith

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
9004147276, 9789004147270, 9789047408413
LCC
HF1359 .S595 2005
Open Library ID
OL22733542M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
985 kB (1008782 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
360\368
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Part One of this book examines the social-state, neoliberal, catalytic-state, and democratic-cosmopolitan models of globalisation. Each necessarily tends to function in a manner contradicting essential claims made by its leading advocates. This "immanent contradiction" provides a theoretical warrant for moving to a new position, addressing the shortcomings of the previous framework. The first three chapters of Part Two are devoted to a Marxian model of capitalist globalisation, in which the irresolvable contradictions and social antagonisms of the capitalist global order are explicitly recognised. The final chapter is devoted to a Marxian model of socialist globalisation, in which those contradictions and antagonisms are overcome, bringing the systematic dialectic of globalisation to a close.

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