The challenge and burden of historical time : socialism in the twenty-first century - Meszaros, Istvan, 1930- (New York : Monthly Review Press, 2008)
Introduction -- The tyranny of capital's time imperative -- The time of the individuals and the time of humanity -- Human beings reduced to'time's carcase' -- The loss of historical time consciousness -- Free time and emancipation -- The uncontrollability and destructiveness of globalizing capital -- The extraction of surplus-labor in capital's'organic system' -- Unreformability, uncontrollability and destructiveness -- The system's threefold internal fracture -- Capital's failure to create its global state formation -- Chronic insufficiency of'extraneous help' by the state -- Marxism, the capital system and social revolution -- The global view of capital -- Historical limits of the labour theory of value -- Ongoing proletarianization and its wishful denials -- The necessary renewal of Marxian conceptions -- The objective possibility of socialism? -- Political and social revolution -- Downward equalization of the differential rate of exploitation -- Socialism or barbarism: from the'American century' to the crossroads -- Foreword -- Capital : the living contradiction -- The potentially deadliest phase of imperialism -- Historical challenges facing the socialist movement -- Conclusion -- Postscript: militarism and the coming wars -- Unemployment and'flexible casualization' -- The globalization of unemployment -- The myth of'flexibility' and the reality of precarization -- From the tyranny of'necessary labor-time to emancipation through'disposable time' -- Economic theory and politics-beyond capital -- Alternative economic approaches -- The need for comprehensive planning -- Capital's hierarchical command structure -- From predictions based on'economic laws working behind the backs of the individuals' to anticipations of a controllable future -- Objective preconditions for the creation of non-deterministic economic theory -- Socialist accountancy and emancipatory politics -- The challenge of sustainable development and the culture of substantive equality -- Farewell to'liberty-fraternity-equality' -- The failure of'modernization and development' -- Structural domination and the culture of substantive inequality -- Education-beyond capital -- Capital's incorrigible logic and its impact on education -- Remedies cannot be just formal; they must be essential --'Learning is our very life, from youth to old age' -- Education as the'positive transcendence of labor's self-alienation' -- Socialism in the twenty-first century -- Irreversibility: the imperative of a sustainable alternative order -- Participation: the progressive transfer of decision making to the associated producers -- Substantive equality: the absolute condition of sustainability -- Planning: the necessity to overcome capital's abuse of time -- Qualitative growth in utilization: The only viable economy -- The national and the international: Their dialectical complementarity in our time -- Alternative to parliamentarism: unifying the material reproductive and the political sphere -- Education: the ongoing development of socialist consciousness -- Why socialism? Historical time and the actuality of radical change -- Conflicting determinations of time -- Why capitalist globalization cannot work? -- The structural crisis of politics -- New challenges on our horizon and the urgency of time -- Notes -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-467) and index.
Keywords: Capitalism; Imperialism; Socialism