How Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalism (Paperback)

Ronald W. Dworkin, MD

ISBN 10: 1498509746 / ISBN 13: 9781498509749

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD, 2016

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Paperback. When the Cold War ended, some people called it the end of history. Capitalism and liberal democracy had prevailed. Later, when the West clashed with radical Islam, Americans realized history hadnt ended after allat least not abroad. Now, in How Marx Can Save American Capitalism, Ronald W. Dworkin shows us that even the home front is in play and capitalism and liberal democracy are threatened. Dworkin uses Karl Marx to tip the balance in their favora paradox, as Marx was the sworn enemy of capitalism and liberal democracy, but also logical, as Marx knew the weak spots in capitalism and democracy better than anyone.In the past, capitalisms weak spots were obvious: sweatshops, workhouses, and hunger. The twentieth century welfare state saved capitalism by fixing them. Todays weak spots are less obvious; they dont even seem related mass loneliness, a declining birth rate, young people postponing adulthood, and workers using sleep aids to function on the job. Yet they pose the same risk to capitalism that child labor and horrid factory conditions once did. Marxs ideas applied to contemporary America show how they are all of apiece. Saving capitalism demands a third waynot rigid Republican conservatism or blind Democratic state interventionism, but a new politics in which the state focuses laser-like on advanced capitalisms unique threats to private life, while leaving much of the free market intact. A battle now rages in the U.S. between crony capitalism and capitalism, with the future of liberal democracy at stake. This book argues that capitalism canand shouldprevail, but to do so lawmakers must change direction and address core areas of instability in peoples private lives that Karl Marxs ideas expose. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: How Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalism (Paperback)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1498509746
• ISBN 13: 9781498509749
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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When the Cold War ended, some people called it the "end of history." Capitalism and liberal democracy had prevailed. Later, when the West clashed with radical Islam, Americans realized history hadn't ended after all-at least not abroad. Now, in How Marx Can Save American Capitalism, Ronald W. Dworkin shows us that even the home front is in play and capitalism and liberal democracy are threatened. Dworkin uses Karl Marx to tip the balance in their favor-a paradox, as Marx was the sworn enemy of capitalism and liberal democracy, but also logical, as Marx knew the weak spots in capitalism and democracy better than anyone.
In the past, capitalism's weak spots were obvious: sweatshops, workhouses, and hunger. The twentieth century welfare state saved capitalism by fixing them. Today's weak spots are less obvious; they don't even seem related- mass loneliness, a declining birth rate, young people postponing adulthood, and workers using sleep aids to function on the job. Yet they pose the same risk to capitalism that child labor and horrid factory conditions once did. Marx's ideas applied to contemporary America show how they are all of apiece. Saving capitalism demands a third way-not rigid Republican conservatism or blind Democratic state interventionism, but a new politics in which the state focuses laser-like on advanced capitalism's unique threats to private life, while leaving much of the free market intact.

Informazioni sull?autore

Ronald W. Dworkin, MD, works as an anesthesiologist while also teaching political philosophy in the George Washington University Honors Program. His essays on medicine, and on American culture and politics, have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, National Affairs, Policy Review, The New Atlantis, and The Public Interest. His other books include Artificial Happiness (2006), How Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalism (Lexington, 2015), and The Rise of the Imperial Self (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).