Were Nancy Fraser an anthropologist, she might have titled her most recent book Endo-Cannibal Capitalism or Auto-Cannibal Capitalism since the main idea of this succinct, thoughtful and eminently readable analysis of late capitalism is that the system we live under is devouring the very conditions of its own existence, rather than consuming some unidentified other. […]
‘You can measure the honesty of a contemporary philosopher’, the sociologist Max Weber once told a group of students, ‘by his attitude toward Nietzsche and Marx’. Marx revealed the subordination of the individual to a dynamic system of impersonal domination that incubates its own destructive elements; Nietzsche disclosed the weak psychological constitution of the ‘last
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The primary objective of Economic Growth and Long Cycles, to quote a summary from the final chapter, is ‘to construct a growth-cum-cycles model inspired by the Classical and Marxist Political Economy tradition’ (249). The authors follow Anwar Shaikh, in his magnum opus Capitalism, in locating Marx within the classical political economy tradition of Smith and Ricardo. But
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