Managerial capitalism: ownership, management, and the coming new mode of production

✍ Scribed by Duménil, Gérard;Lévy, Dominique

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Marxist analysis has traditionally been built on a two-class framework: workers and capitalists. WithManagerial Capitalism, Gerard Duménil and Dominique Lévy mount a powerful argument that such a framework is outdated—we are in fact amid a transition to a new mode of production, one that is fundamentally shaped by a third, intermediary class: managerialism.
Drawing examples from the United States and Europe, the authors offer a historically rooted interpretation of major current economic and political trends. Without eschewing Marx’s theory of history and political economy, they update it to take account of the changes underway in class patterns and relationships to production. The result is a robust new Marxism for the present and the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 11
List of Tables......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
1. An Overview......Page 15
Part I: Modes of Production and Classes......Page 20
2. Patterns of Income Distribution......Page 22
3. Marx's Theory of History......Page 32
4. Managers in Marx's Analysis......Page 47
5. Sociality and Class Societies......Page 54
6. Managerialism and Managerial Capitalism......Page 66
7. A Wealth of Alternative Interpretations......Page 75
8. Hybridization as Analytical Challenge......Page 84
Part II: Twelve Decades of Managerial Capitalism......Page 98
9. Varying Trends of Inequality......Page 100
10. The Sequence of Social Orders......Page 109
11. Class and Imperial Power Structures......Page 131
12. The Politics of Social Change......Page 144
13. Tendencies, Crises, and Struggles......Page 157
Part III: Past Attempts at the Inflection of Historical Dynamics......Page 168
14. Utopian Capitalism in Bourgeois Revolutions......Page 170
15. Utopian Socialism and Anarchism......Page 185
16. Self-Proclaimed Scientific Socialism......Page 196
Part IV: Prospects for Human Emanicpation Within and Beyond Managerialisms......Page 212
17. The Economics and Politics of Managerialisms......Page 214
18. The Potential of Popular Struggle......Page 224
Notes......Page 238
Index......Page 257