The cancer stage of capitalism : from crisis to cure / John McMurtry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMurtry, John, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Capitalism.

Economic history.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Marxian economics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 378 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition, new edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto ; Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Decoding the Cancer System and its Resolution

How China and the West Collaborate in Destroying the Living World Without Knowing It

Explanatory Model versus Metaphor

How Global System Images Reverse Reality

The Primary Growth Circuit of the Money-Sequence Cancer System

The Public Investment Alternative Known to Work

Cancer and Disconnection from the System Causing It

Tracking the Cause of the Cancers We Already Know

The Frame of Meaning: Full-Spectrum System Attack on Life-Organization

Understanding Causation Against Disease Masking

Recognizing the System Disease as Taboo

More Deadly as a Causal Mechanism than the Bubonic Plague

Junk Food Claws and Other Deprivations of Life-Means in Globalizing Metastasis

Conflation of Life-Needs and Commodity Desires

Not Zero Growth, But Zero Bad Growth

Living with the Disease: How I Came to Recognize the Cancer Stage of Capitalism

Contents note continued: Connecting the Multiple Pathways of Attack on Social Life-Organization

Explaining the Deep Structure of Global Economic Collapse and Recovery

Beyond the Shock Doctrine: The Meta-Programme of the Global Cancer System

There is No Such Thing as Society: Destruction of Social Life-Organization to Grow Transnational Money-Sequences

The Real Entitlement System: Transnational Money-Sequencing Eating Societies Alive

Diagnostic History: Emergence of the Cancer System Across Nations and Time

The Non-Shock Pathologization of Society Growing Beneath Connected Diagnosis

The Cancer System in Formation: The 1991 Eco-Genocide of Iraq as Signal of the Meaning

The 9-11 Strategy to Reset World Uprising to No Resistance

The Rising World Awareness Prior to 9-11

The 9-11 Construction in Historical Overview

New Orleans and the Failed US State

Decoding the Deep-Structural Lies that Block Social-Immune Recognition

Contents note continued: From South to North, West and East: System Tumours in the First World

From Big-Oil Devastation to Nuclear Meltdown: Decoding the Global Cancer Driver

A Diagnostic Summary of Degenerate Trends: The Cancer System's Invasion at All Levels of Global Life-Organization

Synopsis, Clarifications and Illustrations

The Overpopulation Argument

Principled Summary of the Cancer Pattern

Social Choice by Self-Regulation versus Deterministic Explanation and Fate

Life-Capital Sequences versus Money-Capital Sequences: The Turning Point of Understanding and Recovery

Re-Grounding in Life-Capital Against the Epochal Eco-Genocides

Seeing through the Magic Thinking of the System

Beyond the Classical, Marxian and Neo-Classical Models: The Basic Framework of Meaning

Capital, Goods and Investment: Resetting Understanding to Life-Coherence

Blocks Against Life-Value and Capital Recognition by Even Life-World Theory

Contents note continued: Understanding Life-Capital versus Money-Capital Today

2.The Ancient Taboo

Thinking Past the Ruling Order as Age-Old Taboo East and West

Classical Asian Philosophy More System-Oppressive than the Greek

Critical Thought as Social-Immune System

The Suspension of Critical Thought in a Dark Age

Late Modernity's Questions Begin to Rise

Critical Social Principles from the Twentieth Century On

Value-Free `Economic Laws' as Automatized System Enforcement

The Mathematical Incarceration of Economics in Money-Sequences

Philosophy Institutes the First Premise of Economics as Rationality Itself

From Methodological Censorship to Ruling Value-Programme

Thinking Beyond the Social Script as an Obligation of Human Life

Recognizing Healthy versus Diseased Ruling Value-Systems

Re-Grounding in Life-Necessity to Recognize the Usurpation of Society

Life-Protective Rule of Law Overridden but Available

Contents note continued: Technology as Saviour or Destroyer: Unmasking the Ruling Fetishism

The Ruling Value-Programme behind `Technological Society' and the `Soulless Mega-Machine'

3.The Pathologization of the Free Market

The Real Free Market

Recovering from the Social Amnesia of the Real Free Market

Money-Sequencing to More versus Exchanging for Life-Goods

The Unseen Mutations of Adam Smith

Unfreedoms Masked as Freedoms

Freedom to Consume

Freedom of the Seller

Freedom of the Producer

Freedom from Government Interference

Lower Costs

The Free Market as Democracy

The Global System's Covert War

The Unseen Programme of Carcinogenic Assumptions

Manufacturing the Public Debt Crisis: Decoding the Historical Turn to Money-Sequence Rule

Mutations of State Policy to Turn Social Spending into Money-Sequencing

The Case of Canada as Representative of the World Revolution Backwards

Contents note continued: Bloodlust of the Neo-Cons as Counter-Revolution Succeeds

The Inner Logic of the Transnational Corporate Rights System

The Genetic Code of the System: To Convert All Life-Goods to Private Money-Sequences

Predictable System Effects in Destroying Planetary Life-Organization

4.The Social Immune System and the Cancer Stage of Capitalism

The Underlying Defence System of Society and its Evolution

The Social Immune System

Without the Social Immune System We are Dead

Society's Real Defence System

Knowing-the Enemy

How to Tell Social Health from Social Disease

The Immune System Model Across Social and Organic Life-Organization

Individuality and Social Life-Requirements not Opposed but Interdependent

Marx's General Formula of Money Capital and its Alternative

From the Welfare State Compromise to Transnational System Mutations

Re-Grounding in the Universal Life-Requirements of Human Health

Contents note continued: (1).Income Security: Continuity of Life-Means to Members of Society

(2).Human Vocation: Functioning Contribution of Citizens to Society's Real Life-Requirements

(3).Sustaining the Life-Carrying Capacities of the Environmental Life-Host

How the Money-Sequence Cancer Explains the Reverse of Human and Natural Evolution

The Nature of the Cancer Agency

The Emergent Disease Pattern

All Power to the Banks: Recovering from Amnesia of their Coup

Social Immune System Collapse Behind the Global Crisis

5.The Paradigm Shift: From Cancer System to Life-Capital Economy

The Missing Life-Base of Economics

The Absurd Metaphysics Not Seen

Recovering the Life-Ground that is Ruled Out

The Life-Blind Mechanism as This-Worldly God

The Lost Choice Space: Decoding the Laws of the Cancer

Understanding the System as an Absolutist Social Morality that Cannot Be Questioned

Contents note continued: Recognizing the Money-Sequence System as Carcinogenic: From Reaganomics and Mass Layoffs to EU Bank Absolutism

Tracking the Future Out of the Past: Money-Sequencing versus Life-Capital

Reversing Civilization as Money-Sequence Freedom

The Life-Capital Base: The Wealth that Creates More Life-Wealth Without Loss

Economic Necessities and Life-Flourishing

Life-Capital: The Base of the Real Economy and Cure

Re-Grounding Well-Being Indexes in Life-Parameters

Getting Life-Capital Right

Life-Capital Accountability versus Money-Sequence Multiplication

Getting Past the Myth of the Invisible Hand

The Common Life-Ground and the Life-and-Death Struggle for It

The Common Life-Ground Defined

Even Ecological Economics Falls Short of Life-Coherent Economy

Tracking the Rogue Pathways of the Money-Sequence of Value

Masking the Carcinogenic Logic as Necessity, Freedom, and the Social Good

Contents note continued: Formal Recognitions of the Life-Destructive Corporate Money-Sequences

Life-Killing Commodities as Middle Term of Private Money-Sequence Growth

Money-Sequencing to More Across Domains of System Life-Destruction

The Cancer System at the Marrow: Transnational Money-Sequences Multiplying with No Other Function

The General Formula of the Money-Sequence Cancer

The Public Banking Alternative Kept Invisible

Beyond Money-Sequence Amnesia

Debt-Servicing Obligations = Bleeding Societies Dry

The IMF: Life-Capital Wrecking Ball for Full-Spectrum Money-Sequence Invasion

The Law of Inverse Relation

Human Nature or System? The Killing Fields of Rwanda

Twenty Years Later: The Money-Sequence Dismantling of Greece

The New Totalitarianism: Transnational Money-Sequencing Consuming Life and Life-Bases as its Metabolism of Growth

6.The Great Vehicle of the Civil Commons

Finding the Common Life-Ground: The Case of France and Europe

Contents note continued: Equating the Economy to Transnational Money-Sequencing: The European Union and its Crisis

Structural Blindness of the Global Market Paradigm: The Case of the World Bank in Conflict

A Republican Leader Recognizes the Cancer System

Decoding the Civil Commons Ground Beneath Parties and Money-Sequence Positions

The Great Sickness Marches On with No Paradigm Shift Conceived

The Hidden World of the Civil Commons: Defining the Lost Ground and Choice-Space of Human Society and World Civilization

Decoding the Civil Commons Base of Human Evolution

The Origin and Through-Line of the Civil Commons in Socially Constructed Language and Rules

Destruction of Knowledge and Creation Sharing by the Transnational Money-Sequence System

System Overview

The Civil Commons Nature of the Great Spiritual Meanings

The Civil Commons Usurped: The Lost Moral Compass of the Contemporary State

Contents note continued: The Undeclared War of Corporate States versus Civil Life-Standards from 1991 On

The Lawless Reversal of Civilization, the Cure in Law, and the Big Lie of Free Trade

The Ultimate Choice: Standing for Society's Life Against the Transnational Money-Sequence Occupation

People Will Not Accept It If They Know: Re-Grounding in the Life-Principled Base of All Human Advance

Beyond the Reverse Propaganda of the System: Understanding the Formation of Citizens in Free Community and Moral Civilization

The Collapse of Distinction Between Common Interest and Money-Demand Growth

Self-Reliant Freedom Provided by Civil Commons, Not by Corporate Market

Life-Capital Principles of Public-Sector Organization-Against Carcinogenic Corporate Bureaucracy

The Life-and-Death Choice-Space of the World: Latin America Before and After 2000, Canada versus Norway Today

Life-Capital Values and Investment: The Known Imperatives of Recovery

Contents note continued: Progressive Taxation as a Primary Principle of Responsible Government

The Logic of Prosperity and Recovery Across Developed and Developing Worlds

The Inner Logic of Self-Multiplying `Investments' that Consume the World with no Life-Function

Reclaiming Public Resources = Recovering from the Money-Sequence Cancer System

The Unseen Civil Commons Base: Public Resources for Public Control and Benefit Across the Board

Reclaiming Citizen Life-Security and Flourishing by Public Option -

An Anatomy of Why `Public-Private Partnerships' Rob the Public

Tracking the Falls of Japan and the European Union to Today

The Lesson Writ Large: The Macro Law of Economic Failure

From Cancer System to Cure: An Overview of the Four System-Deciders

The Life-versus-Death Choice-Space of Europe Over 60 Years

The Financial Inner logic of the Great Sickness

Contents note continued: Austerity Programmes = Bleeding Peoples to Death to Pay the Banks More for Their Failure = Cancer Spiral

How Did Europe Go So Wrong?

Decoding the Financial Erasure of Responsible Government

Locking in Money-Cancer Rule by Reverse Projection

The Bank of Banks Ruling Behind the Scenes

Public Banking System as Long Known but Repressed Imperative of Economic Weil-Being

For-Profit Money Creation by Private Debt-Issue Already Rejected by Sound Economics

Decoding the Beast: The Carcinogenic Takeover of the World Economy in Motion

Recovering from Financial Coma by Connection

The Paradigm Shift that Cannot be Coherently Denied

The Ultimate Determiner of Economic Liberation: Public Policy and Secure Funding for Common Life-Capital Advance

The Long Pull Beyond the Great Sickness: Overcome the Impoverishment of Mothers and Children First

The Case of Brazil's Bolsa Familia as Global Lesson

Contents note continued: Structural Poverty Reduction Across Borders: Defined and Funded Public Policy Determination Decides the Economic Liberation

Recovery by Life-Capital Investment: The Lesson of Public Spending that Works

Beyond Equality and Inequality as System Symptoms: Public Spending to Enable People's Lives as Supreme Economic Goal

Concrete Examples

The Carcinogenic Investment Cycle in Reprise

The Unspoken War

The Reclamation of Society by Democratic Methods and Public Investment

What the Occupy Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street Movements have Lacked

The Grammar of Democratic Recovery: Transformation by Life-Capital Policy-Deciders

Beyond Keynes and Marx to Public Investment in Life-Capital

Regaining Life-Bearings for Earth Recovery: The Life-Capital Principles of Ecological Economy

Latin American Leaders and First Peoples on the World Destruction

The Recovery Begins at the Level of Life-Capital Meaning

Contents note continued: The Life and Life-Capital Measure

The Ultimately Regulating Principles of Human Advance and Extinction

The Real Ecological Economics: Life-Capital Economy Clarified and Distinguished

Knowing the Power of Sovereign Democracy Against the Financial Cancer

The Three Rs of Eco-Literacy: From Civil Commons Motto to First Principles

The Clarifying Questions of the Three Rs of Eco-Literacy as Formulae for Terrestrial Life-Recovery

Reduce by Rational Allocation to What Life-Capacities Require to Flourish

Re-Using Life-Goods as Goods: The Second `R' Towards Real Economy and Non-Waste Recovery

The Social Immune Response is Underway but Incoherent

Re-Use as Political Economy Defended by Law

System-Wide Recovery

Sustainability as Re-Usability After Use

Real Efficiency: Recycling for the Future

From System Ignorance to Material Control

Beyond the Theoretical Mind-Locks of the Ruling Paradigm

Contents note continued: The Lost Value Base of Economics: Life-Coherent Supply and Demand

The Inner Logic of Recovery: Public Investment to Meet Life-Capital Demand

Seeing the Matter Whole.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0745333133

0745333141

9780745333137

9780745333144

OCLC:

856263261

Publisher Number:

60001815598