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Chargement... The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer Viewpar Ellen Meiksins Wood
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Rather more in-crowd than I'd expected; this should be subtitled 'What previous analyses have got wrong', rather than 'a longer view.' But the central insight is crucial: our society is not something that happens naturally when you get rid of barriers to us doing what comes naturally. It's something that was created by forcing people to do capitalist things. This is a short, dense and rewarding book. Although highly analytical I do wish the book somehow was even more clear in its arguments. To give but one example: "capitalist exploitation is characterised by a division of labour between the 'economic' moment of appropriation and the 'extra-economic' or 'political' moment of coercion." In this case, since this is a book about capitalism, the use of "division of labour" in the abstract sense is misleading. Here, Wood is not talking about labour at all, but about the means of capitalist control, or about the institutional structure of capitalism. Why not just write "...a division between..."? This lack of sharpness and clarity piles on, so that stretches of genius are intersperesed with unexpectedly bewildering paragraphs that require re-reading. One has very few points of disagreement with the author of this fantastic text - but one does wish that she might have had a more activist editor. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Qu'est-ce que le capitalisme? Cette question, l'histoire la pose chaque fois que ce syst?me entre en crise, ?talantau grand jour ses absurdit?s. Pour y r?pondre, il faut en comprendre les origines. Voil? ce que propose Ellen Meiksins Wood dans cet ouvrage initialement paru en 2009. Personne ne niera que le capitalisme a permis ? l'humanit? d'accomplir des avanc?es notables sur le plan mat?riel. Mais il est devenu aujourd'hui manifeste que les lois du march? ne pourront faire prosp?rer le capital qu'au prix d'une d?t?rioration des conditions de vie d'une multitude d'individus et d'une d?gradation de l'environnement partout dans le monde. Il importe donc plus que jamais de savoir que le capitalisme n'est pas la cons?quence in?vitable des ?changes commerciaux et marchands que l'on retrouve dans presque toutes les soci?t?s humaines. Le capitalisme a une histoire tr?s singuli?re et un lieu de naissance bien pr?cis: les campagnes anglaises du XVIIe si?cle. En rappelant cette origine, essentiellement politique, l'auteure propose une d?finition limpide des m?canismes et des contraintes qui font la sp?cificit? du capitalisme. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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As Ms Meiksins Wood says, we cannot navigate our exit from capitalism if we are not aware as to the method of our entry thereinto.
Some of the author's assertions are at odds with Marxist views as well as, naturally, being unrepresentative of neoliberal views. This makes it easy for large blocks to gainsay her claims: that doesn't mean that they are wrong and I, for one, can see their merit. ( )