| Description |
viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Crisis and commonwealth-politics, pedagody, praxis / Charles Reitz -- The political economy of predation and counterrevolution: recalling Marcuse on the radical goals of socialism / Charles Reitz and Stephen Spartan -- Socialism one sector at a time / Peter Marcuse -- Charter 2000: a transitional program for labor / David Brodsky -- "Vote for a Job": a short history of contemporary strategic failure on the Organized Left, with lessons for the present / Fred Whitehead -- U.S capitalism and militarism in crisis: our political work today / Douglas Dowd -- Empire as a way of life: course description and critical readings / John Marciano -- Surplus over-appropriation and the reproduction crisis of the Western Roman Empire / Stephen Spartan -- An essay on repressive education: Marcuse, Marx, Adorno, and the future of emancipatory learning / Arnold L. Farr -- Can democratic education survive in a neoliberal society? / Henry A. Giroux -- Defeating corporate blueprints, white papers, and blue ribbon task forces: academic labor reclaims public higher education for the public / Patricia Pollock Brodsky -- Art as a manifestation of the struggle for human liberation: a non-dogmatic Marxist position in aesthetics / Zvi Tauber -- A labor theory of ethics and commonwealth: recalling a "new" Marcuse / Charles Reitz -- Diversity, equality, empowerment in politics and education: Peter McLaren / Charles Reitz -- Cultural origins of African humanism and socialism (Ujamaa) / Alfred Taligoola Kisubi -- The second assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Lloyd C. Daniel -- Year two of the Arab Revolution / Kevin B. Anderson -- Revolutionary critical pedagogy for a socialist society: a manifesto / Peter McLaren -- The communist horizon / Jodi Dean -- Conclusion: the commonwealth counter-offensive / Charles Reitz. |
| Summary |
Extends the critical theories of Marcuse and Marx to an analysis of the intensifying inequalities symptomatic of our current economic distress. It concludes with a manifesto for radical educators by Peter McLaren. |
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Social justice.
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Socialism.
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Income distribution.
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Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979.
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
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McLaren, Peter, 1948-
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| Added Author |
Reitz, Charles.
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| ISBN |
9780739183069 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0739183060 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780739183076 (electronic) |
| Standard No. |
40022784028 |
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