STR Capitalism and Post Capitalism: The Great Transition

Contents: 1. Industrial revolution and distinguishing features of industrial tools and machines. 2. Machine and dialectics of its development. 3. Marx's Grundrisse and dissolution of labour and production processes. 4. Microelectronic and computer revolution: towards dissolution of the machine. 5. From mode of production to mode of information: post-industrial and post-modern system. 6. Are we living in capitalist society? Some questions of transition to post-industrial society. 7. Bell, Richta and a discussion on post-industrial society. 8. Fourth technological revolution: dissolution of the tool and the machine. 9. Renewable energy and technological revolution: society at crossroads. 10. Mode of information, postmodernism and subject-object relationship. Conclusion.

The present work is the next in the series on impact of STR (scientific and technological revolution) on society. The book argues that the constituent elements of the industrial order of things are dissolving under the diluting power of the electronics, in particular, the software.

With the ongoing dissolution of the machine and the tool, new questions are being posed about the nature of social development. The largest scales of capitalist means of production, ownership and production are threatened. Distinctive laws of capitalist mode of production are losing their operation one by one. Many of them are getting suspended. Features of an emerging post-capitalist order are discernable today. Primacy of production is lost, replaced by the production of information and images. Mode of production is being replaced by a mode of information. Industrial revolution and the structures created by it are being replaced by information revolution and its structures. A giant, historic transition is taking place from capitalism to post-capitalism.

The book re-examines all the basic concepts of capitalism: production, its mode, work, labour, value, commodity, worker and others. Capitalism is going beyond itself, losing classical identity. Scientific theory needs to be taken to new levels to interpret the new developments.