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Ruth Levitas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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for utopia the limits of the utopian function in late Capitalist Society
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2000Co-Authors: Ruth LevitasAbstract:(2000). For Utopia: The (limits of the) Utopian function in late Capitalist Society. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 3, The Philosophy of Utopia, pp. 25-43.
Yohanes Tuaderu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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class struggle as a reaction toward the social condition in Capitalist Society as reflected in george bernard shaw s pygmalion
Jurnal Kata : Penelitian tentang Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra, 2017Co-Authors: Yohanes TuaderuAbstract:Class struggle is a collective reaction of the workers toward the inhumane treatments applied by the Capitalists. The collectiveness creates group awareness of the workers as an exploited ‘class’. This awareness, in turn, stimulates working class struggle to oppose the Capitalists’ pressure and exploitation. By employing sociological approach, Pygmalion – a play of five acts written by George Bernard Shaw – is considered as one of the literary pieces of the early twentieth century that portrays the social condition of British Society at the era when capitalism reached its height. Shaw himself is a socialist who supports the working class struggle through propaganda, public lectures, critical essays, and literary works that attack the human exploitation in industrial sphere. This is a qualitative research using Marxist criticism which is theorized by various scholars to analyze the struggle of Liza Doolittle – the main character in Pygmalion – as the portrait of the unstopped struggle of the working class to have their rights which are deliberately ignored by the Capitalists. This theory is considered as the most appropriate instrument to analyze Shaw’s masterpiece, Pygmalion , since Shaw himself is a well-known British socialist who strived for the social reform indicated by the presence of democracy, the admission of human rights, the just distribution of social welfare, and the reasonable respect to individual freedom. This research found that the social condition in England in the end of 19 th century to the early 20 th century was mostly affected by the practice of human exploitation in industrial environment. This conditions caused dehumanization and serious poverty suffered by the working class. Class struggle, then, became a spirit that generated the laborers to free themselves from poverty, to release themselves from the Capitalists’ oppression, and to gain the admission that they are equal with other human beings in Society.
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class distinction and its social implication in Capitalist Society as depicted in george bernard shaw s pygmalion
Lingua Litera, 2015Co-Authors: Yohanes TuaderuAbstract:Class distinction is a differentiation of social class in Capitalist Society in which the dominant class i.e., the capital owners exploit the subordinate class i.e., the working class to gain big economic profit in the process of mass production. The extreme class distinction results in form of bad treatments such as low wages, long working hours (12 to 19 hours per day), and the imposition of bad discipline and fine system. The objective of this research was to reveal the class distinction encountered by the main character – Liza Doolittle – in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion as a reflection of a real social condition in Capitalist Society. In fact, this condition has brought along with it some social implications toward the Society such as dehumanization, human exploitation, and poverty that affectsocial life of British people all over the country. This was a qualitative research using two main theories i.e., 1) Theory of Homology postulated by Lucien oldmann which was used to prove the interdependent relationship between the Society which is told in Shaw’s Pygmalion and the real Society in England, and 2) Marxist criticism of some scholars which is utilized to analyze class distinction in Pygmalion which is assumed as the portrait of the unstopped struggle of the proletariat to achieve their rights ignored by the bourgeoisie for hundreds of years. The result of the study showed that the social condition in England in the end of nineteenth century to the early twentieth century was mostly affected by the practice of class distinction and human exploitation in industry sphere. Meanwhile, the class struggle which was experienced by the main character of Pygmalion was the portrait of the struggle of the working class to free themselves from poverty, to release them from the Capitalist’ oppression, and to gain the admission from the Society that they have equal dignity as other human beings in Society.
Markus Wissen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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crisis and continuity of Capitalist Society nature relationships the imperial mode of living and the limits to environmental governance
Review of International Political Economy, 2013Co-Authors: Ulrich Brand, Markus WissenAbstract:This article aims to better understand the discrepancy between a relatively high level of awareness of the ecological crisis on the one hand, and insufficient political and social change on the other. This discrepancy causes a crisis of what we call the 'Rio model of politics'. We approach the problem from the perspective of the concept of 'societal nature relations' ( gesellschaftliche naturverhaltnisse ), which can be situated in the framework of political ecology and, in this article, is combined with insights from regulation theory and critical state theory. The empirical analysis identifies fossilist patterns of production and consumption as the heart of the problem. These patterns are deeply rooted in everyday and institutional practices as well as societal orientations in the global North and imply a disproportionate claim on global resources, sinks and labour power. They thus form the basis of what we call the 'imperial mode of living' of the global North. With the rapid industrialisation of countries such as India and China, fossilist patterns of production and consumption are generalised. As a consequence, the ability of developed capitalism to fix its environmental contradictions through the externalisation of its socio-ecological costs is put into question. Geopolitical and economic tensions increase and result in a crisis of international environmental governance. Strategies like 'green economy' have to be understood as attempts to make the ecological contradictions of capitalism processable once again.
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crisis and continuity of Capitalist Society nature relationships the imperial mode of living and the limits to environmental governance
Review of International Political Economy, 2013Co-Authors: Ulrich Brand, Markus WissenAbstract:ABSTRACT This article aims to better understand the discrepancy between a relatively high level of awareness of the ecological crisis on the one hand, and insufficient political and social change on the other. This discrepancy causes a crisis of what we call the ‘Rio model of politics'. We approach the problem from the perspective of the concept of ‘societal nature relations' (gesellschaftliche naturverhaltnisse), which can be situated in the framework of political ecology and, in this article, is combined with insights from regulation theory and critical state theory. The empirical analysis identifies fossilist patterns of production and consumption as the heart of the problem. These patterns are deeply rooted in everyday and institutional practices as well as societal orientations in the global North and imply a disproportionate claim on global resources, sinks and labour power. They thus form the basis of what we call the ‘imperial mode of living' of the global North. With the rapid industrialisation o...
Paul M Sweezy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the quality of monopoly Capitalist Society mental health
Monthly Review, 2020Co-Authors: Paul A Baran, Paul M SweezyAbstract:When Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy's Monopoly Capital was published by Monthly Review Press in 1966, two of the chapters originally drafted for the book were left out of the final volume: what was to have been Chapter 9 in the original plan for the book, entitled "Some Theoretical Implications," and what was intended as Chapter 11, "The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Mental Health." In July–August 2012, "Some Theoretical Implications" was finally published in Monthly Review. This was followed by the publication of the first part, approximately two-thirds of the whole, of "The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Mental Health," titled "The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Communications," in the July–August 2013 issue of the magazine. The section on mental health was left out on the grounds that it was incomplete. We finally publish it here.
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the quality of monopoly Capitalist Society culture and communications
Monthly Review, 2013Co-Authors: Paul A Baran, Paul M SweezyAbstract:This is a hitherto unpublished chapter of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966). The text as published here has been edited and includes notes by John Bellamy Foster. The style conforms to that of their book. Part of the original draft chapter, dealing with mental health, was still incomplete at the time of Baran’s death in 1964, and consequently has not be included in this published version. For the larger intellectual context see the introduction to this issue. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
Steven M. Buechler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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new social movements and new social movement theory
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, 2013Co-Authors: Steven M. BuechlerAbstract:New social movement theory (NSMT) emerged in the 1980s in Europe to analyze new social movements (NSMs) that appeared from the 1960s onward. These movements were seen as “new” in contrast to the “old” working-class movement identified by Marxist theory as the major challenger to Capitalist Society. By contrast, NSMs are organized around gender, race, ethnicity, youth, sexuality, spirituality, countercultures, environmentalism, animal rights, pacifism, human rights, and the like. Keywords: democracy; egalitarianism; identity politics; movements; protests
