| Moderation and Revolution Contributor(s): Micocci, Andrea (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739167189 ISBN-13: 9780739167182 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $152.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | International Relations - General - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 330.122 |
| LCCN: 2011044928 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.60 lbs) 390 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the intellectuality of capitalism there are two alternative ways to conceive of reality: the moderate one, which mediates dialectically, and the revolutionary one, which also comprises ruptures with disappearance. The former conforms to, and helps shape, the metaphysics of capitalism itself. The second is akin to the mode of progressing of nature in general, and forms the basis for materialism. Moderate positions tend to be intolerant because they do not recognize the other, which is constantly compelled to mediate. Revolutionary positions instead, recognizing the other, are tolerant and intrinsically non-violent. In capitalism as we know it liberalism, Marxism and anarchism would potentially be revolutionary. But they have been transformed in moderate modes of thought, similar for instance to nationalism, communitarianism, Christian ideas, fascism, socialism. Thus capitalism has become an intolerant world that seems built to block, by means of mediations, its own historical evolution. The outcome is a fascistic economy and polity. |