Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Book Overview

Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference," and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using them to identify the specificity of capitalism as a system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784782440
• ISBN13: 9781784782443
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"