Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy

The slogan 'Marxism is dead' was proclaimed almost immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Very soon after, a strange ideological inversion occurred. In place of the 'inevitable victory of the proletariat' espoused by Marx, there was the 'inevitable process of globalisation', a line now adopted by corporations, politicians and the media the world over. John McMurtry unravels the moral contradictions inherent in this 'new world order', and argues that it cannot succeed because it is based on essentially inhuman values. Connecting across a broad spectrum of issues including the Iraq and Balkan wars, the Asian and Russian meltdowns, ecological collapse, the privatisation and deregulation of public institutions, and the principles of technology, neo-classical and Marxian economics, McMurtry's compelling study lays bare the battle lines of an emerging global ethical war.

Author: John McMurtry
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 08/20/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.36w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780745318899

About the Author
Mark B. Salter is Assistant Professor at The American University in Cairo. He is currently working on a history of the passport in world politics.

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