Is it finally time for a broad-based socialist movement in the United States? More and more Americans, especially young adults, recognize that capitalism is a major source of the most urgent social problems of our time. The new energy around social change has surfaced in such movements as Occupy Wall Street, the People’s Climate March, and the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders in 2015-16. The authors of this book believe the United States desperately needs an alternative economic system that preserves democratic, pluralistic values while avoiding consumerism and wealth disparity.
?Socialism in Process?is a collection of essays envisioning just such an alternative. Drawing on classic socialist texts such as Marx’s?Capital, as well as the ecological philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, the authors explore the emerging features of a distinctively American socialism. Both theoretical foundations and practical applications are considered. In particular, the authors demonstrate the strong and tragic connection between contemporary capitalism and the global climate crisis.
Socialism in Process is indispensable reading for all who recognize the injustices of the present economic system, which adds to the wealth of the 1% at the expense of the remaining 99%. Building on the long and vital history of socialism in the United Sates, this volume plays a crucial role in the resurgence of socialism in North America today. As the authors suggest, community-based, locally grown socialist movements offer answers to many of America’s most tenacious problems.
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s it finally time for a broad-based socialist movement in the United States?
This collection of essays envisions an alternative economic system that preserves democratic, pluralistic values while avoiding consumerism and wealth disparity. Drawing on classic socialist texts such as Marx’s Capital, as well as the ecological philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, the authors explore the merging features of a distinctively American socialism. Both theoretical foundations and practical applications are considered. In particular the authors demonstrate the strong and tragic connections between contemporary capitalism and the global climate crisis.
Contents:
1: Socialism in Process: Marx, Whitehead and the New American Left, Justin Heinzekehr
PART ONE: Revisiting the Alternatives: Resources in Marx and Whitehead
2: A Whiteheadian Approach to Rethinking Economics for the Sustainability Revolution, Carol Frances Johnston
s it finally time for a broad-based socialist movement in the United States?
This collection of essays envisions an alternative economic system that preserves democratic, pluralistic values while avoiding consumerism and wealth disparity. Drawing on classic socialist texts such as Marx’s Capital, as well as the ecological philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, the authors explore the merging features of a distinctively American socialism. Both theoretical foundations and practical applications are considered. In particular the authors demonstrate the strong and tragic connections between contemporary capitalism and the global climate crisis.
Contents:
1: Socialism in Process: Marx, Whitehead and the New American Left, Justin Heinzekehr
PART ONE: Revisiting the Alternatives: Resources in Marx and Whitehead
2: A Whiteheadian Approach to Rethinking Economics for the Sustainability Revolution, Carol Frances Johnston
3: Global Challenges and Wisdom Resources: Why Go Back to Whitehead and Marx and What Can We Learn from Them? Ouyang Kang
4: Persons-in-Community in Whitehead, Smith and Marx: Exploring Marx’s Concept of Class through Adam Smith’s Concept of Social Order, Mark Dibben and Cristina Neesham
5: Organic Marxism and the Marxist Tradition, Leslie A.Muray
PART TWO: Reinterpreting Social Thought for an Ecological Context
6: Commodity Fetishism and Critical Metaphysics, Jung Mo Sung
7: Solidarity, Anne F. Pomeroy
8: Alternative Values to an Extractivist Logic, Timothy Murphy
PART THREE: Adaptation and Diversity: Toward a Contemporary Socialism
9: Against the Insanity of Growth: Degrowth as Concrete Utopia, Barbara Muraca
10: Mariategui and Whitehead: The Metaphysics of Local Marxisms, Justin Heinzekehr
11: Responding to Climate Change: Local Knowledge in African American Communities on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Christine D. Miller Hesed
12: Why Movements Matter Most: A Conversation with the New Materialism,, Joerg Rieger
13: Socialism for the Common Good, Philip Clayton
14: Encountering the Other: A Case for Applied Liberal Education, Robert Neustadt
Series Toward Ecological Civilization
Paperback: 262 pages
Publisher: Process Century Press (February 14, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1940447275
ISBN-13: 978-1940447278
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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Justin Heinzekehr is Director of Institutional Research and Assessment and Assistant Professor of Bible and Religion at Goshen College. His research interests include process philosophy, Anabaptist-Mennonite theology, and political theology. Most recently, he published Organic Marxism: An Alternative to Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe with Philip Clayton.
Philip Clayton is Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theology and an affiliated faculty member at Claremont Graduate University. Previous positions and guest professorships include Williams College, the California State University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, and the University of Munich. Having published extensively on science and religion, Clayton has more recently focused on science and values, environmental ethics, and ecological socialism (“Organic Marxism”).
