{"product_id":"the-challenge-and-burden-of-historical-time-socialism-in-the-twenty-first-century-9781583671696","title":"The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, \u003cb\u003eThe Challenge and Burden of Historical Time\u003c\/b\u003e represents a breakthrough in the development of socialist thought. It can be seen both as a companion volume to his earlier pathbreaking \u003ci\u003eBeyond Capital\u003c\/i\u003e and a major theoretical contribution in its own right. Its focus is on the \"decapitation of historical time\" in today's capitalism and the necessity of a new \"socialist time accountancy\" as a revolutionary response to the debilitating present.\u003cbr\u003eExtending M sz ros's earlier analysis of capitalism as a social-metabolic system caught in an irreversible structural crisis, it represents a crushing refutation of the view that \"there is no alternative\" to the current social order. M sz ros's wide-ranging analysis explores the forces behind the expansion of world inequality, the return of imperial interventionism, the growing structural crisis of the capitalist state, and the widening planetary ecological crisis--along with the new hope offered by the reemergence of concrete socialist alternatives.\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of his book is an examination of the preconditions of Latin America's historic Bolivarian journey, which is producing new revolutionary transformations in Venezuela, Bolivia and elsewhere. \u003cb\u003eThe Challenge and Burden of Historical Time\u003c\/b\u003e is a work of great political as well as philosophical importance, one that defines the challenges and burdens facing all those who are committed to a more rational, more egalitarian future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMészáros, István:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eIstván Mészáros\u003c\/b\u003e was a professor emeritus at the University of Sussex and a world renown philosopher and critic. He authored \u003ci\u003eMarx's Theory of Alienation, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBeyond Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, and over a dozen other titles.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoster, John Bellamy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJohn Bellamy Foster\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of \u003ci\u003eMonthly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written many books including \u003ci\u003eThe Robbery of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (with Brett Clark) and \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e which won the Deutscher Memorial prize.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Monthly Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50357138817298,"sku":"9781583671696","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8e1eadc4-79ff-4d79-8769-104781cc19b8.jpg?v=1728318915","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-challenge-and-burden-of-historical-time-socialism-in-the-twenty-first-century-9781583671696","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}