Democracy against capitalism : renewing historical materialims
Marxism this book argues, is still the most effective way of understanding capitalism. Ellen Meiksins Wood reformulates the Marxist theory of history while exploring the historical particularity of capitalism as a system of social relations. Then, tracing democracy from antiquity to the present, she examines its ambiguous relationship with capitalism.
Print Book, English, 1996
1st ed., repr View all formats and editions
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996
estudios y conferencias
XII, 300 p. 24 cm
9780521470964, 9780521476829, 052147096X, 0521476828
432012959
Introduction; Part I. Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism: 1. The separation of the 'economic' and 'political' in capitalism; 2. Rethinking base and superstructure; 3. Class as process and relationship; 4. History or technological determinism?; 5. History or teleology? Marx v. Weber; Part II. Democracy against Capitalism: 6. Labour and democracy, ancient and modern; 7. The demos v. 'we, the people': from ancient to modern conceptions of citizenship; 8. Civil society and the politics of identity; 9. Capitalism and human emancipation: race, gender and democracy; Conclusion.