Holly Sklar
Autor de Chaos or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics
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Obras de Holly Sklar
Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management (1980) — Editor — 68 copias
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 515 copias
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- Sklar, Holly L.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1955
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- female
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- USA
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- 9
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- 2
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- 348
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- #68,679
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- 3.9
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- 1
- ISBNs
- 16
Well, the folks over at Z (Z Magazine) have a solution. It's not really anything new, but rather a reworking and meshing of many older theories. The authors argue that the serious flaw of many of the old radical left visions was their "monism." Marxism claimed the economy as the central social field and all else as "superstructure." The practical effect was that Marxists ignored the problems of women and people of color beyond the economy. Anarchists and radical feminists had analogous problems.
Liberating theory suggests that their are four, equally important, sphere's of society: economic, political, kinship and cultural. The authors argue that the institutions of these four spheres are interconnected and (most often) mutually reinforcing. Therefore struggle for revolution can not occur in one, ignoring the rest.
The debates in this book seem to me a bit old. Opposition to patriarchy and racism have permeated most of the left and there has been a recent resurgence of class and political issues with the stirrings of organized labor, Seattle, D.C. and the new third parties. So it seems to me many people now see the value of working on multiple fronts and inclusiveness.
However, these movements are also largely bereft of long term vision. This book, despite its dated quality, could provide a good foundation for such a vision.… (más)