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The Emergence of Post-modernity at the Intersection of Liberalism, Capitalism, and Secularism

Author : Matthew McManus
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030989704
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Post-modernity at the Intersection of Liberalism, Capitalism, and Secularism written by Matthew McManus and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a systematic and thorough analysis of what post-modernity is and how it emerged. It distinguishes between those who regard post-modernity as a theoretical approach and those who regard it as a culture, and argues that interpreting post-modernity as a culture is more fruitful. It discusses the three factors which led to its emergence, namely liberalism, capitalism, and secularism, highlighting their respective influence in generating the culture of post-modernity within neoliberal societies. The volume provides a lengthy analysis of neoliberal post-modernity in practice, arguing that post-modernism is the cultural condition of neoliberal societies in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Until recently it seemed that neoliberal post-modernity was here to stay, framed by relationship to freedom and time which stressed individual agency but precluded the possibility of historical change at the political level. However, the Great Recession of 2008 opened new spaces for agitation and transformation which has resulted in the discordant politics of the last decade. This book will be of interest to scholars working in a number of fields, including economic policy, cultural analysis, political theory, and social critique.

Social Catholicism for the Twenty-First Century?--Volume 1

Author : William F. Murphy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666788619
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Social Catholicism for the Twenty-First Century?--Volume 1 written by William F. Murphy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first of two volumes introduces the tradition of social Catholicism, not only in its earlier realizations, but regarding how a contemporary renewal might address the crisis in which constitutional democracies and the postwar liberal order are under assault by populist and even neo-fascist movements that could soon usher in a frighteningly dark future unless a broad movement in defense of constitutional democracy quickly arises. In this context, some of the most influential voices among American Catholics are focused on criticizing “liberal democracy,” on advocating a “postliberal order” and the establishment of a Catholic “integralist” state, or on insisting that abortion should be the primary sociopolitical concern for Catholics, treating these threats to democracy as largely irrelevant. This volume shows the rich tradition of social Catholicism, and how the Social Doctrine of the Church came to appreciate the key tenets of constitutional democracy. As Pope Benedict XVI wrote, this social doctrine leads us to “take a stand for the common good,” to take the “institutional” or “political path of charity,” to be “solicitous for” the “institutions that give structure to the life of society, juridically, civilly, politically and culturally.” It engages some of the most influential contemporary Catholic thinkers and argues that they too should recognize the grave threats facing the human family and join in working to defend and renew our constitutional democracy.

Against Post-Liberal Courts and Justice

Author : Lesley A. Jacobs
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031453476
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Against Post-Liberal Courts and Justice written by Lesley A. Jacobs and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers how Liberal institutions – constitutional democracy, economic markets, liberal courts, free trade, international human rights – around the world are under assault by the political right and we are witnessing the emergence of post-liberal institutions. These post-liberal institutions are founded on the core conviction that the actions of liberal institutions including the United States Supreme Court are patently unjust. This volume makes the case against post-liberal courts and justice by reconnecting to the principles of moral equality and dignified freedom for all. The intention is to show how there is great untapped potential in the work of Ronald Dworkin’s work to demonstrate that it can help progressive liberals think through the great issues of the day and respond to the contemporary criticisms of the political right. The core themes are concretely illustrated by focusing on some of the most controversial recent post-liberal decisions of the Supreme Court, ranging from election funding to abortion to race-sensitive affirmative action, to economic inequality in an age of increasingly unequal opportunities.

The Right to Legal Personhood of Marginalised Groups

Author : Anna Arstein-Kerslake
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192657747
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Legal Personhood of Marginalised Groups written by Anna Arstein-Kerslake and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal personhood is required for voting, marrying, inheriting, contracting, consenting, and other critical social acts that can be predicates to power and privilege. The Right to Legal Personhood of Marginalised Groups addresses personhood and legal capacity as human rights issues, in particular as they relate to disabled people, migrant groups, indigenous peoples, racial minorities, women, and gender minorities. The concepts of personhood, legal capacity, and agency have conflicting definitions in the literature, and there is a lack of clarity regarding their application. Dr. Anna Arstein-Kerslake brings her expertise as a renowned thinker in the areas of human rights, disability rights, gender justice, and legal personhood to this discussion. She provides clarity on personhood and legal capacity by developing definitions of these concepts based on the articulation of the right to legal capacity in Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She then applies these definitions to the situations of various minority groups. The Right to Legal Personhood of Marginalised Groups has the potential to significantly enrich the understanding of how and why marginalised groups are denied equality. It goes beyond the traditional analysis of discrimination and equal protection of the law and explores a new social justice imperative: equal recognition before the law.

The i-zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism

Author : Adam Possamai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981105942X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The i-zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism written by Adam Possamai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital capitalism, neoliberalism dominates, more and more, all aspects of life, and religion is not left unaffected. While some faith groups are embracing this hegemony, and others are simply following the signs of the times, changes have been so significant that religion is no longer what it used to be. Linking theories from Fredric Jameson and George Ritzer, this book presents the argument that our present society is going through a process of i-zation in which (1) capitalism dominates not only our outer, social lives (through, for example, global capitalism) but also our inner, personal lives, through its expansion in the digital world, facilitated by various i-technology applications; (2) the McDonaldization process has now been normalized; and (3) religiosity has been standardized. Reviewing the new inequalities present in this i-society, the book considers their impact on Jurgen Habermas’s project of post-secularism, and appraises the roles that various religions may have in supporting and/or countering this process. It concludes by arguing that Habermas’s post-secular project will occur but that, paradoxically, the religious message(s) will be instrumentalized for capitalist purposes.

Farewell to Postmodernism

Author : Bartosz Kuzniarz
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783653023831
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Postmodernism written by Bartosz Kuzniarz and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grand narrative of capitalism continues at the beginning of the 21st century, though in a different (postmodern) key from its previous forms. In such circumstances, the New Leftist predilection for colourful peripheries - something it has unwittingly shared with postmodernism - must give way to a tendency for ethically responsible reflection.

Revisiting Secularism in Theory and Practice

Author : Seda Ünsar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030374564
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Secularism in Theory and Practice written by Seda Ünsar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a philosophical and macro-historical analysis of secularism, supported by an investigation of various contemporary cases. Starting with an in-depth theoretical discussion of the meaning of secularism, it subsequently presents a historical study on the secularization of norms and identities in Europe. The respective case studies cover topics such as the epistemologies of secularism, liberalization and embedded secularism, the relationship between modernity and secularism, the socio-anthropology of secularism, Turkish modernization as a cultural revolution, the political economy of secularism in Turkey, and the secular rationale of the EU neighborhood policy.

Post-Postmodernism

Author : Jeffrey Nealon
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804783217
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Post-Postmodernism written by Jeffrey Nealon and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of the economic sphere into formerly independent segments of everyday cultural life. If "fragmentation" was the preferred watchword of postmodern America, "intensification" is the dominant cultural logic of our contemporary era. Post-Postmodernism surveys a wide variety of cultural texts in pursuing its analyses—everything from the classic rock of Black Sabbath to the post-Marxism of Antonio Negri, from considerations of the corporate university to the fare at the cineplex, from reading experimental literature to gambling in Las Vegas, from Badiou to the undergraduate classroom. Insofar as cultural realms of all kinds have increasingly been overcoded by the languages and practices of economics, Nealon aims to construct a genealogy of the American present, and to build a vocabulary for understanding the relations between economic production and cultural production today—when American-style capitalism, despite its recent battering, seems nowhere near the point of obsolescence. Post-postmodern capitalism is seldom late but always just in time. As such, it requires an updated conceptual vocabulary for diagnosing and responding to our changed situation.

Growing Up Postmodern

Author : Ronald Strickland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742516519
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Postmodern written by Ronald Strickland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment, but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the power to consume is distributed very unevenly, and even for the affluent it never fulfills the desire produced by the advertising industry. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.

The Unraveling of the West

Author : Donald N. Wood
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unraveling of the West written by Donald N. Wood and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

The Condition of Digitality

Author : Robert Hassan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912656677
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Condition of Digitality written by Robert Hassan and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity rationalised capitalism's transformation during an extraordinary year: 1989. It gave theoretical expression to a material and cultural reality that was just then getting properly started - globalisation and postmodernity - whilst highlighting the geo-spatial limits to accumulation imposed by our planet. However this landmark publication, author Robert Hassan argues, did not address the arrival of digital technology, the quantum leap represented by the move from an analogue world to a digital economy and the rapid creation of a global networked society. Considering first the contexts of 1989 and Harvey's work, then the idea of humans as analogue beings he argues this arising new human condition of digitality leads to alienation not only from technology but also the environment. This condition he suggests, is not an ideology of time and space but a reality stressing that Harvey's time-space compression takes on new features including those of 'outward' and 'inward' globalisation and the commodification of all spheres of existence. Lastly the author considers culture's role drawing on Rahel Jaeggi's theories to make the case for a post-modern Marxism attuned to the most significant issue of our age. Stimulating and theoretically wide-ranging The Condition of Digitality recognises post-modernity's radical new form as a reality and the urgent need to assert more democratic control over digitality.

After Capital

Author : Couze Venn
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526457008
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book After Capital written by Couze Venn and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present crisis of capitalism has a history. A history of the private accumulation of wealth through property regimes which allow increasing commodification and the privatisation of resources: from land to knowledge and even to life itself. Understanding that history may allow us to imagine alternatives after Capital which are no longer private but common. After Capital explores this history, showing how the economy is linked to environmental damage, climate change, resource depletion, and to massive inequality. It takes the reader from liberalism to neoliberalism, from climate change to the Anthropocene, and shows how this history is inextricably the history of colonialism. It is a rich and detailed narrative of capitalism over the last 200 years, that explains its texture and its neoliberal endgame. This discussion frames speculation on what postcapitalist societies could be, with regimes of private accumulation replaced by a politics and ethics of a democratic and ecologically- grounded Commons.

Reviving the Invisible Hand

Author : Deepak Lal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837448
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Reviving the Invisible Hand written by Deepak Lal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations. Arguing for a revival of the invisible hand of free international trade and global capital, eminent economist Deepak Lal vigorously defends the view that statist attempts to ameliorate the impact of markets threaten global economic progress and stability. And in an unusual move, he not only defends globalization economically, but also answers the cultural and moral objections of antiglobalizers. Taking a broad cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, Lal argues that there are two groups opposed to globalization: cultural nationalists who oppose not capitalism but Westernization, and "new dirigistes" who oppose not Westernization but capitalism. In response, Lal contends that capitalism doesn't have to lead to Westernization, as the examples of Japan, China, and India show, and that "new dirigiste" complaints have more to do with the demoralization of their societies than with the capitalist instruments of prosperity. Lal bases his case on a historical account of the rise of capitalism and globalization in the first two liberal international economic orders: the nineteenth-century British, and the post-World War II American. Arguing that the "new dirigisme" is the thin edge of a wedge that could return the world to excessive economic intervention by states and international organizations, Lal does not shrink from controversial stands such as advocating the abolishment of these organizations and defending the existence of child labor in the Third World.

The Theology of Liberalism

Author : Eric Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674242955
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Theology of Liberalism written by Eric Nelson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing. We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after 1945. In The Theology of Liberalism, one of the country’s most important political theorists argues that we could hardly be more wrong. Eric Nelson contends that the tradition of liberal political philosophy founded by John Rawls is, however unwittingly, the product of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. Once we understand this, he suggests, we can recognize the deep incoherence of various forms of liberal political philosophy that have emerged in Rawls’s wake. Nelson starts by noting that today’s liberal political philosophers treat the unequal distribution of social and natural advantages as morally arbitrary. This arbitrariness, they claim, diminishes our moral responsibility for our actions. Some even argue that we are not morally responsible when our own choices and efforts produce inequalities. In defending such views, Nelson writes, modern liberals have implicitly taken up positions in an age-old debate about whether the nature of the created world is consistent with the justice of God. Strikingly, their commitments diverge sharply from those of their proto-liberal predecessors, who rejected the notion of moral arbitrariness in favor of what was called Pelagianism—the view that beings created and judged by a just God must be capable of freedom and merit. Nelson reconstructs this earlier “liberal” position and shows that Rawls’s philosophy derived from his self-conscious repudiation of Pelagianism. In closing, Nelson sketches a way out of the argumentative maze for liberals who wish to emerge with commitments to freedom and equality intact.

Current Global Ideas and Movements Challenging Capitalism

Author : Duan Zhongqiao
Publisher : Canut Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9783942575065
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Current Global Ideas and Movements Challenging Capitalism written by Duan Zhongqiao and published by Canut Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duan Zhongqiao, the renowned Beijing based philosophy scholar and his colleagues, have analyzed the nine influential trends and movements of the times keenly observing how their prominent representatives have reflected on manifold problems of capitalism .With an original exegesis they have delved into the inner logic of those thoughts and thrown light on the major counterpoints in them. These trends in the spheres of philosophy, economics, politics, sociology and Marxist theory have shaken and challenged academy, parties, governments and peoples' lives, some of them defending the existing capitalist system, others sought how to transform to socialism and some tried to conserve it further by reforms. Current situation in the world especially the great financial crisis, increasing un-employment and growth hitting bottoms in the main centers of capitalism call for new changes and bring forth new questions for all the movements and trend of thoughts. And people all around the world seek alternatives and strive for subsistence, development, peace and more democracy. Marxists value these appeals highly, especially when social ferment for revolution is not full-blown. The book was written by a group of scholars from Philosophy Department and researchers in the Marxism Institute in Renmin University of China. Duan Zhongqiao has edited and compiled the whole book; chapters on analytical Marxism and market socialism were written by him; futurism by Zhang Yunfei, neo-Liberalism by Zhang Xu, post-modernism by Xu Fei, post-colonialism by Zhang Libo, ecological socialism by Han Haitao, socialist feminism by Liu Jianjun and the Third Way by Qin Xuan.

Insurrection/Postmodernism

Author : Michel Luc Bellemare Ph D
Publisher : Blacksatin Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780978115166
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Insurrection/Postmodernism written by Michel Luc Bellemare Ph D and published by Blacksatin Publications Limited. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurrection/Postmodernism is a call to arms, both conceptual and material, for everyone, who is truly sick and tired of inequality, tyranny, and bourgeois-capitalist mediocrity, at every level of socio-economic existence. In fact, Insurrection/Postmodernism is a series of essays, unmasking the meta-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism for what it is, another Enlightenment grand-narrative, regulating, controlling, and dominating, the plurality of micro-narratives, which circulate, create, and interrelate, the incommensurable island-narratives, in and across, the micro-recesses of our everyday lives. The point is to expose the meta-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism for what it is, totalitarianism, namely, a lie and a fallacy, perpetrated upon the general-population, in the name of bourgeois-capitalism, so as to cunningly accumulate money and power in the hands of a select few, the state-finance-corporate-aristocracy. The point of Insurrection/Postmodernism is to show that the meta-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism is a form of totalitarianism, imposed upon the general-population, bent on destroying and eliminating differences, equality and autonomy, from the sum of socio-economic existence in favor of bourgeois unity, bourgeois-money and a despotic, bourgeois-capitalist totality. The truth of the matter is that when the meta-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism grinds to a halt and/or collapses, and there are signs all-over that it inevitably will, a lot of incompetent people, who were wrongfully elevated into the upper-echelons of the bourgeois-capitalist-system, due to their obedience, ignorance, subservience, and overwhelming mediocrity, pertaining to the meta-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism, will be first against the wall, not for their crimes against humanity, per se, but, due to their docile ineptitude, stupidity, and total lack of empathy, which has resulted in endless socio-economic sufferings in and across everyday life. As a result, a large number of technocratic degenerates, who blindly follow, worship, and enact, the dictates of the meta-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism, without thinking, or empathy, with certain glib and religious fanaticism, will eventually face the full, unbridled, onslaught of pragmatic demolitionism, both mentally and physically etc., without remorse. It is no longer a matter of justice. We are well pass that. This concerns nothing less than pure and absolute retribution. Postmodernism commands and demands satisfaction, including its full maturation and apex. No longer is it content to remain stunted, arrested and castrated, muted and flattened, beneath the celebratory degenerate monologue, that is, the meta-narrative of bourgeois-capitalism. As a result, postmodernism insists upon insurrection and demolition. It insists on reaching and attaining the Nth degree of equality, autonomy, and heterogeneity, i.e., anarchism, whereupon, the maxim

Modernity, Postmodernity, and Posthumanity

Author : David Ross
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781847180520
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Modernity, Postmodernity, and Posthumanity written by David Ross and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In line with recent post-modern research, this text argues for a global change never before realized on such a scale. I refer to 21st century communism. Communism has not been defeated, only its relatively immature 20th century form. To cross from late capitalism to a sophisticated communism based upon the advances of the current conjuncture is a task for those who would live dangerously. Indeed, the waters of this crossing upon the river of time are deep. But the depth of a river is the imagination of those who dare cross it. The vessel of the crossing is theory. Without revolutionary theory, ' said V.I. Lenin, there can be no revolutionary movement.' However, the production of theory has a social context, namely, the actual life practises of a world belonging to a specific conjuncture. The world is undergoing constant change, and theory must both reflect upon and reflect that. Guided by Marx's words and example, I have undertaken the task of fitting dialectics within contemporary scientific discoveries, beginning with chaos theory. A communism for the 21st century points to the possibility of order unfolding from disorder. According to this schema, it is necessary to hold both order and disorder as simultaneous realities while locating the dynamic of their operation vis-Ã -vis a substrate. I tentatively identify this textual body as the confluence of several strands, blending relations between different but complimentary elements: dialectical method (Plato-Hegel-Marx); the striving for social justice (Hebrew prophets and Marx) and; science (specifically fractal logic, chaos theory, general systems theory, string theory).