The Cancer Stage of CapitalismBy John McMurtry

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Number Of Pages: 320
• Publication Date: 1999-03-01
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0745313477
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780745313474

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Product Description: In this bold new look at the recent uncontrolled spread of global capitalism, John McMurtry, professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph, develops the metaphor of modern capitalism as a cancer. Its invasive growth,he argues, threatens to break down our society's immune system and--ifnot soon restrained--could reverse all the progress that has been madetoward social equity and stability. On every continent, in every state,there are indicators of profound economicand environmental collapse. From the lands of indigenous communities tothe currency markets of Asia, from the ocean floors to the ozone layer,the collapse is all-encompassing and deep-reaching. John McMurtrytraces the causes of this global disorder back to the mutatingassumptions of market theory that now govern the world’s economy. He diagnoses the malaise as a pathologist would a biological cancer, tracking the delinked circuits of the global system’s monetised growthas a carcinogenic disorder at the social level of life-organization. Inthe wide-lensed tradition of Adam Smith, Marx and Keynes, McMurtry cutsacross academic disciplines and boundaries to penetrate the inner logic of the system’s problems. Far from pessimistic, he argues that the way out of the globalcrisis is to be found in an evolving substructure of history whichprovides a common ground of resolution across ethnic and nationaldivisions. Reaching beyond conventional textbooks, this fascinatingstudy offers a new paradigm which is accessible to intelligent citizensthe world over.