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Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy
John McMurtry
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Description for Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy
Paperback. '.. a tour de force, one of the most devastating critiques of the global market paradigm that has been written to date.' Prof Peter McLaren , University of California, Los Angeles Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFS; JPS; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
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 globalisation', a line now adopted by corporations, politicians and the media the world over.
John McMurtry 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 ... Read more
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 globalisation', a line now adopted by corporations, politicians and the media the world over.
John McMurtry 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745318899
SKU
V9780745318899
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About John McMurtry
John McMurtry was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of the multi-volume Philosophy and World Problems, written for the UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, Value Wars, and The Cancer Stage of Capitalism.
Reviews for Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy
'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 ... Read more
Peter McLaren, Professor, University of ... Read more