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Book Description Condition: New. pp. 399. Seller Inventory # 370283104
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. First. ISBN:9789350024409,399pp. Seller Inventory # 2028900
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. The project of applying general systems theory to social sciences is crucial in today's crisis when social and ecological systems clash. This book concretely demonstrates the necessity of a Marxist approach to this challenge, notably in asserting agency (struggle) as against determinism. It similarly shows how Marxism can be reinvigorated from a systems perspective. Drawing on his experience in both international systems and low-input agriculture, Biel explores the interaction of social and physical systems, using the conceptual tools of thermodynamics and information. He reveals the early twenty-first century as a period when capitalism starts parasitising on the chaos it itself creates, notably in the link between the two sides of imperialism: militarism (the 'war on terror') and speculative finance capital. Seller Inventory # 121135