Andrea Micocci

Moderation and Revolution (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the intellectuality of capitalism there are two alternative ways to conceive of reality: the moderate one, which mediates dialectically, and the revolutionary one, which also comprises ruptures with disappearance. The former conforms to, and helps shape, the metaphysics of capitalism itself. The second is akin to the mode of progressing of nature in general, and forms the basis for materialism. Moderate positions tend to be intolerant because they do not recognize the other, which is constantly compelled to mediate. Revolutionary positions instead, recognizing the other, are tolerant and intrinsically non-violent. In capitalism as we know it liberalism, Marxism and anarchism would potentially be revolutionary. But they have been transformed in moderate modes of thought, similar for instance to nationalism, communitarianism, Christian ideas, fascism, socialism. Thus capitalism has become an intolerant world that seems built to block, by means of mediations, its own historical evolution. The outcome is a fascistic economy and polity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216286134
• Artikelnr.: 75139317

Autorenporträt

Andrea Micocci is professor of economics at University of Malta Link Campus.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Individual, State, Community
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Contradiction, Mediation, Opposition
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Capitalism, Politics and Political Theories
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Pretended Variety of Economic Ideas
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Classical Liberalism
Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Economic Liberalism
Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Utopian Socialisms and Russian Nihilism
Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Marx
Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Marxisms. Leninism and Stalinism, Trotzkysm
Chapter 11 Chapter 10. Anarchism
Chapter 12 Chapter 11. Revisions of Marxism, Fall of the Totalitarian
"Socialist" Regimes
Chapter 13 Chapter 12. Democratic Theories, Conservatism
Chapter 14 Chapter 13. Christian Ideas of Social Reform
Chapter 15 Chapter 14. Nationalism, Racism
Chapter 16 Chapter 15. Imperialism, Theories of Underdevelopment
Chapter 17 Chapter 16. Fascisms
Chapter 18 Chapter 17. Communitarianism and Neoliberalism
Chapter 19 Chapter 18. New Ideas or New Movements?
Chapter 20 Chapter 19. Terrorism
Chapter 21 Chapter 20. Moderation against Revolution, Tolerance