Defetishized Society

New Economic Democracy as a Libertarian Alternative to Capitalism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

AvChris Wyatt

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New Economic Democracy establishes a self-governing civil society, unifying the private sphere of production and the public sphere of citizenship within a non-statist scheme of communal ownership. It provides the premises to seeking a solution to Marx's fetishism of commodities. Only a thorough restructuring of the economic and political institutions can provide the social climate in which the phenomenon of fetishism can be transcended. Defetishizing the commodity implies reversing the concealment of the social relations through which commodities are produced and preventing the tendency to bestow magical characteristics to commodities. The key imperative to the defetishized society is a system of genuinely democratic institutions. The New Economic Democracy provides this necessary corrective and also challenges the prediction that politico-economic organizations, like worker cooperatives, are destined to be dominated by the dictates of oligarchs. The explanatory approach of Marx's concepts combined with an original argument will make the book a valuable research tools to students and researchers in political theory, democratic theory, and political economy.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-09-29
Mått160 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441159335

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Chris Wyatt is lecturer in Social Theory and Sociology at the University of Brighton. He is also affiliated to the University of Sussex, where he teaches Modern Political Thought and Contemporary Political Theory. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology, a Master of Arts degree in Social and Political Thought and a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought. He is the author of The Difference Principle Beyond Rawls (Continuum, 2008)

Introduction; Section I. Commodity Fetishism, Anti-fetishism and New Economic Democracy; 1. The Fetish Character of the Commodity Form and Defetishisation; 2. Radical Political Economy and the Constitution of New Economic Democracy; Section II. Defetishisation in the Economy of New Economic Democracy; 3. Superseding Alienation; 4. Towards a New Economic Democracy Critique of Oligarchy; 5. The Theories of Transaction Costs and Membership Lethargy; 6. The Theory of Elite Control; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

"Wyatt's book is topical and important. Well-informed and clearly written, it describes a radical economic and political alternative to the the sorry present disorder. He draws on G. D. H. Cole's libertarian socialism, Rawls's work on the equitable distribution of resources, and Marx's ideas on commodity fetishism. The resulting synthesis provides provides a powerful argument for a New Economic Democracy which would provide an alternative cooperative mode of production and. equally important, a corresponding mode of consumption. If enough people read this book, and act on it, there is hope for us yet." - David Mclellan, Professor of Political Theory, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.