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Author:   Murray E. G. Smith
Publisher:   Brown Bear Press
Imprint:   Brown Bear Press
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9781551306254

ISBN 10:   1551306255
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Whither the Marxist Phoenix? Part I: Capitalism, Value, and Crisis Chapter 1: The Unbearable Burdens of Capitalism: A Marxist Perspective Chapter 2: Profitability and the Roots of the Global Crisis: Marxas aLaw of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Falla and the US Economy, 1950a2007 Chapter 3: Alienation, Exploitation, and Abstract Labour: A Humanist Defense of Marxas Theory of Value Part II: Human Progress and the Materialist Dialectic Chapter 4: Against Dualism: Marxism and the Necessity of Dialectical Monism Chapter 5: The Value Abstraction and the Dialectic of Social Development Chapter 6: The aIntentional Primacya of the Relations of Production: Further Reflections on the Dialectic of Social Development Chapter 7: Marxism versus aProgressive Poststructuralisma Part III: Trotskyas Marxism Chapter 8: Revisiting Trotsky: Reflections on the Stalinist Debacle and Trotskyism as Alternative Chapter 9: The Revolutionary Betrayed: Trotsky and the Crisis of Trotskyism Part IV: Class, Labour, and Socialist Strategy Chapter 10: Socialist Strategy, Yesterday and Today: Notes on Classical Marxism and the Contemporary Radical Left Chapter 11: Rethinking aThe Middle Classa: Ideological Constructions and Contradictory Structural Locations Chapter 12: aAs Radical as Realitya Chapter 13: Beyond Social Unionism: Farm Workers in Ontario and Some Lessons from Labour History Chapter 14: Twenty-First Century Socialism: Utopian or Scientific? References Index Copyright Acknowledgements

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Murray Smith's Marxist Phoenix is a must read for all of those who aspire to be a part of a better world in birth. Never has capitalism appeared so destructive of human needs. Yet seldom has capitalism seemed more secure. A social order that cannot provide for those who live within it often seems immune to fundamental transformation. Smith's book points the way forward with its unerringly sure grasp of theoretical fundamentals and critical strategic sensibilities. It outlines Marxism's trenchant analysis of capitalism and offers invaluable lessons for organized revolutionary resistance. -- Bryan D. Palmer, author of James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890--1928 (2007); Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era (2009); and Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckersa Strikes of 1934 (2013).

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Murray E.G. Smith is Professor of Sociology at Brock University.

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