The global financial and industrial turmoil of recent years has once more brought the crisis-prone nature of the capitalist system to the forefront. In the context of economic stagnation and the retreat of working-class organizations, the rich and powerful around the world have redoubled their attack on the poor through neoliberal policies and austerity measures.In The Servant State, McCormack and Workman explore Canada’s experience through the “age of austerity” and highlight how this experience has been shaped by the exigencies of capitalist development and the catalyzing role of the Canadian state. The analytical standpoint is not that of the oppressed per se, but rather that of capitalism as a whole. They share the condemnation of the capitalist establishment, are appalled by the greed and avarice of the ruling elite and despair at the obscenities of the age; however, the critical spirit of their study is imbued less with a mood of indignation and more with assumptions and sensitivities about the inner tendencies of capitalism and the obliging role of the state. The struggle against contemporary excess and horror, they argue, must be framed with reference to the immuring tendencies of the capitalist order of things.
Publication : 30 novembre 2015
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : eBook [ePub]
Contenu(s) : ePub
Protection(s) : DRM ACS4 (ePub)
Taille(s) : 2,22 Mo (ePub)
Langue(s) : Anglais
EAN13 eBook [ePub] : 9781552667842
EAN13 (papier) : 9781552667835
Flavie Achard, Pierre Beaudet, Stéphane Chalifour, Donald Cuccioletta, André Frappier, Pierre Mouterde, Alain Saint-Victor, Judith Trudeau, Carole Yerochewski, Pierre Beaulne, Julia Posca, Milan Bernard, Simon Tremblay-Pépin, Todd Gordon, Geoffrey McCormack, Mathieu Dufour, Christian Pépin, Andrea Levy, Éric Martin, Rosa Pires, Dalie Giroux, Danic Parenteau, Gilles Bourque, Joëlle Alice Michaud-Ouellet, Gilles Labelle, Yves Rochon, Julie Perreault, Diane Lamoureux, Benjamin Birnbaum, Bernard Rioux, Isabelle Garo, Daniel Côté, Jessica Dubé, Jorge Frozzini, Maristella Svampa, Ronald Cameron, Roger Rashi, Kristian Hernandez, Rodney Saint-Eloi, Joséphine Bacon, Julie Depelteau, Wilfried Cordeau, Pierre Leduc, Kaveh Boveiri, Emanuel Guay
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