The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time
The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century Istvan Meszaros, John Bellamy Foster,
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 1583671692
DDC: 335
Edition: Paperback; 2008-08-01
Summary:
Today Meszaros's theoretical insights are becoming a material force,
gripping the masses through various world-historical developments,
including the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela s President Hugo
Chavez. John Bellamy Foster, author of Marx s Ecology Istvan Meszaros
illuminates the path ahead. He points to the central argument we must
make in order . .. to take to the offensive throughout the world in
moving toward socialism. Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela If
everyone had the spirit of Istvan Meszaros, that is, if everyone were
. .. so mindful of the totality and the future, so fierce in
opposition, so faithful to the exploited and oppressed, and so
hopeful for a better world, then such a world would be in closer
reach. Joel Kovel, Professor of Social Studies, Bard CollegeAn
extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of the late
twentieth and early twenty-first century, The Challenge and Burden of
Historical Time represents a breakthrough in the development of
socialist thought. It can be seen both as a companion volume to his
earlier pathbreaking Beyond Capital and a major theoretical
contribution in its own right. Its focus is on the "decapitation of
historical time"” in today'’s capitalism and the necessity of a new
"socialist time accountancy"” as a revolutionary response to the
debilitating present.Extending Meszaros's earlier analysis of
capitalism as a social-metabolic system caught in an irreversible
structural crisis, it represents a crushing refutation of the view
that "there is no alternative" to the current social order.
Meszaros's wide-ranging analysis explores the forces behind the
expansion of world inequality, the return of imperial
interventionism, the growing structural crisis of the capitalist
state, and the widening planetary ecological crisis -- along with the
new hope offered by the reemergence of concrete socialist
alternatives.At the heart of his book is an examination of the
preconditions of Latin America'Â’s historic Bolivarian journey, which
is producing new revolutionary transformations in Venezuela, Bolivia
and elsewhere. The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time is a work
of great political as well as philosophical importance, one that
defines the challenges and burdens facing all those who are committed
to a more rational, more egalitarian future.
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