The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada - Softcover

Mccormack, Geoffrey; Workman, Thom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552667839 ISBN 13: 9781552667835

Verlag: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The global financial and industrial turmoil of recent years has once more brought the crisis-prone nature of the capitalist system to the forefront. In the context of economic stagnation and the retreat of working-class organizations, the rich and powerful around the world have redoubled their attack on the poor through neoliberal policies and austerity measures.
In The Servant State, McCormack and Workman explore Canada’s experience through the “age of austerity” and highlight how this experience has been shaped by the exigencies of capitalist development and the catalyzing role of the Canadian state. The analytical standpoint is not that of the oppressed per se, but rather that of capitalism as a whole. They share the condemnation of the capitalist establishment, are appalled by the greed and avarice of the ruling elite and despair at the obscenities of the age; however, the critical spirit of their study is imbued less with a mood of indignation and more with assumptions and sensitivities about the inner tendencies of capitalism and the obliging role of the state. The struggle against contemporary excess and horror, they argue, must be framed with reference to the immuring tendencies of the capitalist order of things.

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Geoffrey McCormack is an assistant professor of political science and global studies at Wheelock College in Boston.

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• Verlag: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1552667839
• ISBN 13: 9781552667835
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 146
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