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Globalization and justice / Kai Nielsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nielsen, Kai, 1926-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socialism.
- Social justice.
- Equality.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Anti-globalization movement.
- Physical Description:
- 377 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Nielsen persuasively argues that capitalist globalization is the means by which already wealthy interests seek to aggrandize their power at the expense of citizens in poor nations. He contends that democratic socialism is still humanity's best hope for achieving a classless, nonracist, and nonsexist world community.
- Contents:
- 1. The Crisis of Socialism and Analytical Marxism 41
- 2. Emancipatory Social Science and Social Critique 81
- 3. Analytical Marxism: A Form of Critical Theory 117
- 4. Radical Egalitarianism Revisited: On Going beyond the Difference Principle 139
- 5. Socialism and Egalitarian Justice 191
- 6. Global Justice, Capitalism, and the Third World 225
- 7. Is Global Justice Impossible? 243
- 8. Global Justice, Power, and the Logic of Capitalism 281
- 9. Are Nation-States Obsolete? The Challenge of Globalization 297
- 10. The Democratic Deficit of Capitalist Globalism 317.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-368) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1591020549
- OCLC:
- 51722861
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