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Marx's Radical Critique of Capitalist Society
N. Scott Arnold
其他書名
A Reconstruction and Critical Evaluation
出版Oxford University Press, 1990
主題Business & Economics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralPhilosophy / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismPolitical Science / History & Theory
ISBN01950587989780195058796
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uxfCAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"It has been widely remarked that Marx's theoretical writings pay less attention to ethical or normative issues than one might initially suppose. Those writings focus more on questions of economic, historical, and sociological theory. Nevertheless, it is obvious that Marx found many features of capitalist society deeply objectionable. The precise nature of those objections in the concern of this books. Scattered throughout Marx's writings (and those of his collaborator, Engels) is a systematic--and thoroughly radical--critique of capitalist society. Marx believed that the ills of capitalist society are neither accidental no incidental; instead they are embedded in the very structure of the capitalist economic system. Arnold carefully articulates and critically evaluates the Marxian charges against capitalism of exploitation and alienation. Marx's radical critique of capitalist society, Arnold further argues, presupposes a set of alternative institutions that do not have the defects attributed to capitalism. He proceeds to reconstruct Marx's vision of post-capitalist society by assuming post-capitalist relations of production (workers' control of the means of production and the abolition of wage labor) as given, and then asking what else can be inferred about post-capitalist society. A careful analysis of this account of the two phases or stages of post-capitalist society (later called 'socialism' and 'communism') reveals that neither could be realized. It has often been said that Marxism may work in theory but not in practice; this book contends that it does not work in theory either. Finally, Arnold provides a framework for thinking critically about all varieties of social criticism, both radical and moderate. Detailing the burden of proof any social critic must meet, this compelling analysis raises questions and addresses issues that go beyond Marx and his radical critique of capitalist society." -- Book jacket