Beyond capital: towards a theory of transition/
Istvan Meszaros.
- Culcutta: K P Bagchi & Company, 1995.
- xxvi, 994 pages ; 23 cm
Including Index.
pt. 1. The shadow of uncontrollability. Breaking the spell of 'universal permanent capital' -- Capital's order of social metabolic reproduction -- Solutions to the uncontrollability of capital as seen from capital's standpoint -- Causality, time, and forms of mediation -- The activation of capital's absolute limits. pt. 2. Historical legacy of the socialist critique 1: the challenge of material and institutional mediations in the orbit of the Russian revolution. The tragedy of Lukacs and the question of alternatives -- From the closed horizon of Hegel's 'world spirit' to predicating the imperative of socialist emancipation -- The limits of 'out-Hegeling Hegel' -- Theory and its institutional setting -- Politics and morality: from history and class consciousness to the present and future of democratization and back to the unwritten ethics -- Marx's unfinished project -- The 'cunning of history' in reverse gear -- How could the state wither away? pt. 3. Structural crisis of the capital system. The production of wealth and the wealth of production -- The decreasing rate of utilization under capitalism -- The decreasing rate of utilization and the capitalist state -- Changing forms of the rule of capital -- Historical actuality of the socialist offensive -- The communal system and the law of value -- The line of least resistance and the socialist alternative. pt. 4. Essays on related issues. The necessity of social control -- Political power and dissent in post-revolutionary societies -- The division of labour and the postcapitalist state -- Radical politics and transition to socialism: reflections on Marx's centenary -- The present crisis -- 'Socialismo hoy dia'.