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Time, labor, and social domination : a reinterpretation of Marx's critical theory by Moishe Postone; Cambridge University Press is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. He does so by developing concepts aimed at grasping the essential character and historical development of modern society, and also at overcoming the familiar dichotomies of structure and action, meaning and material life. These concepts lead him to an original analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of 'actually existing socialism'. According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination rather than as means of human emancipation. This reinterpretation entails the form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Moishe Postone; Cambridge University Press
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
1993
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521626200
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, Social Science, Economics

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