Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy

by John McMurtry

Book Overview

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',...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745318894
• ISBN13: 9780745318899
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.6"