Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account (Historical Materialism Book, #10) (Historical Materialism)

by Tony Smith

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Part One of this book examines the social-state, neoliberal, catalytic-state, and democratic-cosmopolitan models of globalisation. Each necessarily tends to function in a manner contradicting essential claims made by its leading advocates. This “immanent contradiction” provides a theoretical warrant for moving to a new position, addressing the shortcomings of the previous framework. The first three chapters of Part Two are devoted to a Marxian model of capitalist globalisation, in which the irresolvable contradictions and social antagonisms of the capitalist global order are explicitly recognised. The final chapter is devoted to a Marxian model of socialist globalisation, in which those contradictions and antagonisms are overcome, bringing the systematic dialectic of globalisation to a close.
  • ISBN10 9004147276
  • ISBN13 9789004147270
  • Publish Date 26 January 2006 (first published 1 December 2005)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill