The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time : Socialism in the Twenty-First Century

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. The Tyranny of Capital\'s time imperative. 2. The uncontrollability and destructiveness of globalizing capital. 3. Marxism, the capital system and social revolution. 4. Socialism or Barbarism: From the "American Century" to the crossroads. 5. Unemployment and "Flexible Casualization". 6. Economic theory and politics -- beyond capital. 7. The challenge of sustainable development and the culture of substantive equality. 8. Education -- beyond capital. 9. Socialism in the twenty-first century. 10. Why Socialism? Historical time and the actuality of radical change. Notes. Index.

"A breakthrough in the development of socialist thought, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time is both a companion volume to Meszaros\'s seminal Beyond Capital and a major theoretical contribution in its own right. Meszaros, one of the foremost Marxist thinkers of our age, focuses on the Tyranny of Capital\'s time imperative and the necessity of a new socialist time accountancy, and provides a strong refutation of the popular view that there is no alternative to the current Neoliberal order.

Meszaros offers masterful analysis of the forces behind the expansion of inequality and unemployment, the return of imperial intervention across the globe, the growing structural crisis of the capitalist state, and the widening ecological crisis -- along with the hope offered by the reemergence of concrete socialist alternatives. This powerful and provocative new collection defines the challenges and burdens facing all who are committed to a more rational and egalitarian future." (jacket)