Bøger af Michael A. Lebowitz

"Michael A. Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his "Beyond Capital." Whereas Karl Marx, in "Capital," treated capitalism as an organic system that reproduces its premises of capital and wage-labor, Lebowitz argues that the solidarity of workers in struggle points toward an organic system of community, an alternative system that produces its own premises, communality, and recognition of the needs of others. "Between Capitalism and Community" demonstrates the analysis that capitalism contains within itself elements of a different society, one of community"--

In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Beyond Capital (winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The Contradictions of "Real Socialism." Here, he develops and deepens the analysis contained in those pathbreaki

Puts forward a clear and innovative vision of a socialist future, and at the same time shows how concrete steps can be taken to make that vision a reality. This book shows how the understanding of capitalism can itself become a political act - a defense of the real needs of human beings against the ongoing advance of capitalist profit.

Beyond Capital argues that these problems can be traced back to Marx's failure to write his planned book on Wage-Labour. Rather than rejecting Marx, Beyond Capital argues that his 'political economy of the working class' and the process of struggle are central for going beyond capitalism.