A01=John McMurtry
Adam Smith
Afghan war
Author_John McMurtry
Blairism
Brazil
capitalist ideology
Category=GTQ
Category=JPS
Category=KCS
Category=QDTQ
Corporate America
corporate media
corporate stripping
economic fundamentalism
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Federal Reserve
free market
Genocide of First People
George Orwell
Guatemala
Gulf War
Indonesia
Karl Marx
market intervention
Nazi resistance
Neo-classical economics
Oil wars
totaltarianism
US imperialism
US sponsored death squads
value system
World Trade Organisation
Yugoslavia breakup
Product details
- ISBN 9780745318899
- Weight: 372g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2002
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The slogan 'Marxism is dead' was proclaimed almost immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Very soon after, a strange ideological inversion occurred. In place of the 'inevitable victory of the proletariat' espoused by Marx, there was the 'inevitable process of globalisation', a line now adopted by corporations, politicians and the media the world over.
John McMurtry unravels the moral contradictions inherent in this 'new world order', and argues that it cannot succeed because it is based on essentially inhuman values. Connecting across a broad spectrum of issues including the Iraq and Balkan wars, the Asian and Russian meltdowns, ecological collapse, the privatisation and deregulation of public institutions, and the principles of technology, neo-classical and Marxian economics, McMurtry's compelling study lays bare the battle lines of an emerging global ethical war.
John McMurtry unravels the moral contradictions inherent in this 'new world order', and argues that it cannot succeed because it is based on essentially inhuman values. Connecting across a broad spectrum of issues including the Iraq and Balkan wars, the Asian and Russian meltdowns, ecological collapse, the privatisation and deregulation of public institutions, and the principles of technology, neo-classical and Marxian economics, McMurtry's compelling study lays bare the battle lines of an emerging global ethical war.
John McMurtry was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of the multi-volume Philosophy and World Problems, written for the UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, Value Wars, and The Cancer Stage of Capitalism.
