Overview
The slogan ""Marxism is dead"" was proclaimed almost immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Very soon after, a strange ideological inversion occurred. In place of the ""inevitable victory of the proletariat"" espoused by Marx, there was the ""inevitable process of globalization"", a line now adopted by corporations, politicians and the media the world over. This volume unravels the moral contradictions inherent in this ""new world order"", and argues that it cannot succeed because it is based on essentially inhuman values. Connecting across a broad spectrum of issues including the Iraq and Balkan wars, the Asian and Russian meltdowns, ecological collapse, the privatization and deregulation of public institutions and the principles of technology, neo-classical and Marxian economics, this study lays bare the battle lines of an emerging global ethical war. Tracking social uprisings across continents from the rural landless and women's movements of the South to the workers, students and civil alliances marching in the North, the author's original ""life-ground ethics"" explains the unseen bonds uniting people across cultural and class divisions.
Full Product Details
Author: John McMurtry
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.372kg
ISBN: 9780745318899
ISBN 10: 0745318894
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 20 August 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
When it comes to exposing, analyzing and exploding the inversions, double-speak, closed loops, half-truths and outright untruths of the mind-set which underpins today's dictatorship of global 'free' market competition, nobody does it better than McMurtry. -- John Bunzl, Founder & Director, International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) Makes clear...the gulf that separates the values that underlie our present global capitalism and those that are truly life-affirming. -- John B. Cobb, Jr., co-author with Herman Daly of For the Common Good, and Professor, Claremont Graduate School One of the most devastating critiques of the global market paradigm that has been written to date... -- Peter McLaren, Professor, UCLA 'John McMurtry's new book is a tour de force, one of the most devastating critiques of the global market paradigm that has been written to date. McMurtry's intellect is razor sharp and his arguments are developed and exercised with a remarkable depth and precision. This book marks McMurtry as one of the most important moral philosophers of his generation.' --Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
'John McMurtry's new book is a tour de force, one of the most devastating critiques of the global market paradigm that has been written to date. McMurtry's intellect is razor sharp and his arguments are developed and exercised with a remarkable depth and precision. This book marks McMurtry as one of the most important moral philosophers of his generation.' --Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Author Information
John McMurtry is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His articles in philosophy, economics and politics have been published across the world, and his analyses of transnational trade and investment treaties are internationally known. His recent books are The Cancer Stage of Capitalism (Pluto Press, 1999) and Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System (Garamond Press, 1998).
