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The Necessity of Social Control
By John Bellamy Foster (foreword by) and Istvan Meszaros
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Monthly Review Pr
Publication date January 26, 2014
Pages 326
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781583675380
ISBN-10 1583675388
Dimensions 1 by 6 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.90 lbs.
Original list price $32.00
Other format details university press
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As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx’s theory of alienation, the structural crisis of capital, the demise of Soviet-style post-revolutionary societies, and the necessary conditions of the transition to socialism. His dialectical inquiry into social structure and forms of consciousness—a systematic critique of the prevailing forms of thought—is unequaled in our time.”

Mészáros is the author of magisterial works like Beyond Capital and Social Structures of Forms of Consciousness, but his work can seem daunting to those unacquainted with his thought. Here, for the first time, is a concise and accessible overview of Mészáros’s ideas, designed by the author himself and covering the broad scope of his work, from the shortcomings of bourgeois economics to the degeneration of the capital system to the transition to socialism.



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Hardcover
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With Istvan Meszaros | from Monthly Review Pr (January 26, 2014)
9781583675397 | details & prices | 326 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $89.00
About: As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced.
With James Gettys McGready Ramsey, J. G. M. Ramsey, Istvan Meszaros | from Ayer Co Pub (June 1, 1971); titled "The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century"
9780405028779 | details & prices | List price $55.95
This edition also contains The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century
About: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
With Arthur St. Clair, Istvan Meszaros | Reprint edition from Ayer Co Pub (June 1, 1971); titled "Narrative of the Manner in Which the Campaign Against the Indians in the Year 1791 Was Conducted Under the Command of Major General st Clair"
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With Istvan Meszaros | from Monthly Review Pr (January 26, 2014)
9781583675380 | details & prices | 326 pages | 6.00 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $32.00
About: As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced.

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