{"product_id":"the-challenge-and-burden-of-istv-n-msz-ros-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Istv疣 M駸z疵os\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1583671692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781583671696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monthly Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2009 pg. 100","brand":"Istv疣 M駸z疵os","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939784163583,"sku":"9781583671696","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a127f341-31b1-4e04-a17f-9854c8254263.jpg?v=1681443462","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-challenge-and-burden-of-istv-n-msz-ros-9781583671696","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}