Crisis and Commonwealth

Charles Reitz

doi:10.5771/9780739183076

Summary

Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection, notably Peter Marcuse, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Zvi Tauber, Arnold L. Farr and editor, Charles Reitz, are deeply engaged with the foundational theories of Marcuse and Marx with regard to a future of freedom, equality, and justice. Douglas Dowd furnishes the critical historical context with regard to U.S. foreign and domestic policy, particularly its features of economic imperialism and militarism. Reitz draws these elements together to show that the writings by Herbert Marcuse and these formidable authors can ably assist a global movement toward intercultural commonwealth.

The collection extends the critical theories of Marcuse and Marx to an analysis of the intensifying inequalities symptomatic of our current economic distress. It presents a collection of essays by radical scholars working in the public interest to develop a critical analysis of recent global economic dislocations. Reitz presents a new foundation for emancipatory practice—a labor theory of ethics and commonwealth, and the collection breaks new ground by constructing a critical theory of wealth and work. A central focus is building a new critical vision for labor, including academic labor. Lessons are drawn to inform transformative political action, as well as the practice of a critical, multicultural pedagogy, supporting a new manifesto for radical educators contributed by Peter McLaren. The collection is intended especially to appeal to contemporary interests of college students and teachers in several interrelated social science disciplines: sociology, social problems, economics, ethics, business ethics, labor education, history, political philosophy, multicultural education, and critical pedagogy.

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Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-8306-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-8307-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 323
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1 The Political Economy of Predation and Counterrevolution No access Pages 19 - 42
2 Socialism One Sector at a Time No access Pages 43 - 50
3 Charter 2000 No access Pages 51 - 66
4 “Vote for a Job” No access Pages 67 - 72
5 U.S. Capitalism and Militarism in Crisis No access Pages 73 - 94
6 Empire as a Way of Life No access Pages 95 - 104
7 Surplus Over-Appropriation and the Reproduction Crisis of the Western Roman Empire No access Pages 105 - 118
8 An Essay on Repressive Education No access Pages 119 - 136
9 Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society? No access Pages 137 - 152
10 Defeating Corporate Blueprints, White Papers, and Blue Ribbon Task Forces No access Pages 153 - 160
11 Art as a Manifestation of the Struggle for Human Liberation No access Pages 161 - 174
12 A Labor Theory of Ethics and Commonwealth No access Pages 175 - 204
13 Diversity, Equality, Empowerment in Politics and Education No access Pages 205 - 218
14 Cultural Origins of African Humanism and Socialism (Ujamaa) No access Pages 219 - 236
15 The Second Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. No access Pages 237 - 244
16 Year Two of the Arab Revolutions No access Pages 245 - 256
17 Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy for a Socialist Society No access Pages 257 - 262
18 The Communist Horizon No access Pages 263 - 268
Conclusion No access Pages 269 - 286
Appendix No access Pages 287 - 310
Name Index No access Pages 311 - 312
Subject Index No access Pages 313 - 318
About the Contributors No access Pages 319 - 323