Value Wars by John Mcmurtry
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.
'A tour de force, one of the most devastating critiques of the global market paradigm that has been written to dateMcMurtry's intellect is razor sharp and his arguments are developed and exercised with a remarkable depth and precision. This book marks McMurtry as one of the most important moral philosophers of his generation' -- Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745318899 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745318894 |
| Title | Value Wars |
| Author | John Mcmurtry |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pluto Press |
| Year published | 2002-08-20 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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