Democracy against capitalism : renewing historical materialism / Ellen Meiksins Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Ellen Meiksins.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marxian economics.

Capitalism.

Democracy.

Historical materialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)

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Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A reformulation of Marxism which explains why it still provides the most effective way of looking critically at capitalism.

Contents:

I. Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism. 1. The separation of the 'economic' and the 'political' in capitalism. 2. Rethinking base and superstructure. 3. Class as process and relationship. 4. History or technological determinism? 5. History or teleology? Marx versus Weber

II. Democracy Against Capitalism. 6. Labour and democracy, ancient and modern. 7. The demos versus 'we, the people': from ancient to modern conceptions of citizenship. 8. Civil society and the politics of identity. 9. Capitalism and human emancipation: race, gender and democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Democracy against capitalism.

ISBN:

9780511558344

0511558341

9780521476829

0521476828

Publisher Number:

99986988596

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.