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In this bold look at the uncontrolled spread of global capitalism, John McMurtry, professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph, develops the metaphor of modern capitalism as a cancer. Its invasive growth, he argues, threatens to break down our society's immune system and--if not soon restrained--could reverse all the progress that has been made toward social equity and stability. John McMurtry traces the causes of this global disorder back to the mutating assumptions of market theory that now govern the world's economy. He diagnoses the malaise as a pathologist would a biological cancer, tracking the delinked circuits of the global system's monetised growth as a carcinogenic disorder at the social level of life-organization. In the wide-lensed tradition of Adam Smith, Marx and Keynes, McMurtry cuts across academic disciplines and boundaries to penetrate the inner logic of the system's problems. Far from pessimistic, he argues that the way out of the global crisis is to be found in an evolving substructure of history which provides a common ground of resolution across ethnic and national divisions.
Contents
Part 1 The collapse of the market paradigm. Part 2 The social immune system and the cancer stage of capitalism: knowing the enemy; telling health from disease; the social immune system model; the pre-cancer condition - from Marx to the welfare state; the global mutation of the capitalist system; the cancer stage of capitalism - the nature of the cancer agent; the emergent disease agent; the social and environmental life response. Part 3 The life code versus the money code. Part 4 The civil commons.
