Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists
World Capitalism and Global History
- Hartmut Elsenhans - University of Leipzig, Germany
Capitalism is often recognised as a realisation of the bourgeois revolution—war to the castles and peace to the huts.
This book argues that a lack in perception of the progressive aspects of capitalism has resulted in policy measures that have frequently been defeated. It brings out the importance of capitalism as the promise of being able to attain socialism. Based on modern economics of a post-Keynesian nature, it rejects mechanistic Marxism and the civilisational process of cultural turn thinking.
The book is a comprehensive analysis of the origins of capitalism, its contradictions, the dynamics of non-capitalist societies and the challenges of globalisation (including theories of imperialism).
[The author] presents a new way of looking at the right-left debate with his labour empowerment theory… The book is very well-researched…contains interesting facts gathered from around the world…an interesting read for students of economic history and theory.
This normative position about free functioning capitalism is the premise upon which the book, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, derives the agenda of democratic socialism... the book discusses how the capitalist market fails to address the rising demand for environmental protection or for provisions for the future.
The book is a comprehensive analysis of the origins of capitalism, its contradictions, and the dynamics of non-capitalist societies and the challenges of globalization.