Capitalism and the National Question in Canada / Gary Teeple.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teeple, Gary, Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--Canada.

Social classes.

Canada--Economic conditions.

Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 256 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Capitalism is the accepted, and so intellectually an almost invisible, way of life in Canada. Very little has been thought or published about Canada that uses a Marxist critique of capitalism and its dynamics, and this book aims to advance such thinking by analysing the reasons for the openness of the dominion to capitalist domination, first by Europeans and then by Americans, to labour domination from the United States, and to a sell-out policy in regard to its land and farms. The dependency of the Canadian ruling class on foreign capitalists is an important factor in Canada's continued colonial-mindedness, and the rise of nationalism in Quebec is based on the inevitabilities of the class antagonisms set up by capitalism. The authors believe that it is only through such Marxist theory and practice that a way can be found for Canada to escape at last from imperialist exploitation and that a way can be found to shape a socialist future for the whole country.

Contents:

The rise and fall of the third commercial empire of the St Lawrence / R.T. Naylor

Land, labour, and capital in pre-Confederation Canada / Gary Teeple

International unions and the ideology of class collaboration / Roger Howard and Jack Scott

The reverter clause and break-aways in Canada / R.B. Morris

Canadian unionism / Charles Lipton

Continentalism and Canadian agriculture / H.E. Bronson

The development of class in Canada in the twentieth century / Leo A. Johnson

Social classes and national ideologies in Quebec, 1760-1970 / Gilles Bourque and Nicole Lauren-Frenette

Quebec: concepts of class and nation / Stanley B. Ryerson

Liberals in a hurry : socialism and the CCF-NDP / Gary Teeple

Appendix: the ideological foundations of social democracy and social credit / R.T. Naylor.

Notes:

Collection of essays sponsored by SPEC.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8389-3

OCLC:

1129201708