The Necessity of Social Control - Softcover

Istv�n M�sz�ros

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9789350022399: The Necessity of Social Control

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ISBN 10: 9350022397 ISBN 13: 9789350022399

Publisher: Aakar Books, 2013

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As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “Istv�n M�sz�ros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx’s theory of alienation, the structural crisis of capital, the demise of Soviet-style post-revolutionary societies, and the necessary conditions of the transition to socialism. His dialectical inquiry into social structure and forms of consciousness—a systematic critique of the prevailing forms of thought—is unequaled in our time.”

M�sz�ros is the author of magisterial works like Beyond Capital and Social Structures of Forms of Consciousness, but his work can seem daunting to those unacquainted with his thought. Here, for the first time, is a concise and accessible overview of M�sz�ros’s ideas, designed by the author himself and covering the broad scope of his work, from the shortcomings of bourgeois economics to the degeneration of the capital system to the transition to socialism.

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About the Author:

Istv�n M�sz�ros is a world-renowned philosopher and critic. He 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. Meszaros is author of The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time, Beyond Capital, The Power of Ideology, The Work of Sartre, and Marx’s Theory of Alienation.

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff), The Ecological Rift and Critique of Intelligent Design (both with Brett Clark and Richard York), The Ecological Revolution, Ecology Against Capitalism, Marx’s Ecology, and The Vulnerable Planet.

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"one of the few people who has made essential contributions to the body of Marxist thought." - Michael A. Lebowitz, author, The Contradictions of "Real Socialism" and The Socialist Alternative

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