Ronald W. Dworkin

How Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalism (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When the Cold War ended, some people called it the "end of history." Capitalism and liberal democracy had prevailed. Later, when the West clashed with radical Islam, Americans realized history hadn't ended after all-at least not abroad. Now, in How Marx Can Save American Capitalism, Ronald W. Dworkin shows us that even the home front is in play and capitalism and liberal democracy are threatened. Dworkin uses Karl Marx to tip the balance in their favor-a paradox, as Marx was the sworn enemy of capitalism and liberal democracy, but also logical, as Marx knew the weak spots in capitalism and democracy better than anyone. In the past, capitalism's weak spots were obvious: sweatshops, workhouses, and hunger. The twentieth century welfare state saved capitalism by fixing them. Today's weak spots are less obvious; they don't even seem related- mass loneliness, a declining birth rate, young people postponing adulthood, and workers using sleep aids to function on the job. Yet they pose the same risk to capitalism that child labor and horrid factory conditions once did. Marx's ideas applied to contemporary America show how they are all of apiece. Saving capitalism demands a third way-not rigid Republican conservatism or blind Democratic state interventionism, but a new politics in which the state focuses laser-like on advanced capitalism's unique threats to private life, while leaving much of the free market intact.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216225577
• Artikelnr.: 74842129

Autorenporträt

Ronald W. Dworkin, MD, works as an anesthesiologist while also teaching political philosophy in the George Washington University Honors Program. His essays on medicine, and on American culture and politics, have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, National Affairs, Policy Review, The New Atlantis, and The Public Interest. His other books include Artificial Happiness (2006), How Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalism (Lexington, 2015), and The Rise of the Imperial Self (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Our French Revolution
Chapter 2 The New Alienation
Chapter 3 A Society of Hobos
Chapter 4 The Tin Man
Chapter 5 A Fetish for Commodities
Chapter 6 When Christianity Becomes Ideology
Chapter 7 Marx For America