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Author:
István
Mészáros
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN:
978-1-58367-169-6
Publication Date: 2008
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The Challenge and Burden of
Historical Time
Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
by István Mészáros, foreword by John Bellamy Foster
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About this Book
"Today Mészáros'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
Chávez." -John Bellamy Foster, editor, Monthly Review
"István Mészáros illuminates the path ahead. He points to the central
argument we must make in order . . . to take to the offensivethroughout
the worldin moving toward socialism."-Hugo Chávez, President of
Venezuela
"If everyone had the spirit of István Mészáros, 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 College
"István Mészáros has produced what might yet prove a manifesto for the
new socialism, 21st century socialism."-Green Left Weekly
A breakthrough in the development of socialist thought, The Challenge
and Burden of Historical Time is both a companion volume to Mészáros's
seminalBeyond Capital and a major theoretical contribution in its own
right. Mészáros, one of the foremost Marxist thinkers of our age,
focuses on the tyranny of capital's time imperative and the necessity of
a new socialist time accountancy, and provides a strong refutation of
the popular view that there is no alternative to the current neoliberal
order.
Mészáros offers masterful analysis of the forces behind the expansion of
inequality and unemployment, the return of imperial intervention across
the globe, the growing structural crisis of the capitalist state, and
the widening ecological crisisalong with the hope offered by the
reemergence of concrete socialist alternatives. This powerful and
provocative new collection defines the challenges and burdens facing all
who are committed to a more rational and egalitarian future.
About the Author:
István Mészáros left his native Hungary after the Soviet invasion of
1956. He is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he
held the Chair of Philosophy for fifteen years. Mészáros is author of
Beyond Capital, Power of Ideology, The Work of Sartre, and Marx's Theory
of Alienation. |
