The necessity of social control / by István Mészáros.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Necessity of Social Control -- 1.1. Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology -- 1.2. Capitalism and Ecological Destruction -- 1.3. Crisis of Domination -- 1.4. From "Repressive Tolerance" to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression -- 1.5. War if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail -- 1.6. Emergence of Chronic Unemployment -- 1.7. Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation -- 1.8. Capital's "Correctives" and Socialist Control -- 2. Marxism Today -- 2.1. Sartre's Alternative -- 2.2. Marxism Today -- 2.3. Mickey Mouse Socialism -- 2.4. Problem of Organization -- 3. Causality, Time, and Forms of Mediation -- 3.1. Causality and Time under Capital's Causa Sui -- 3.2. Vicious Circle of Capital's Second Order Mediations -- 4. Activation of Capital's Absolute Limits -- 5. Meaning of Black Mondays (and Wednesdays) -- 6. Potentially Deadliest Phase of Imperialism -- 7. Challenge of Sustainable Development and the Culture of Substantive Equality -- 7.1. Farewell to "Liberty -- Fraternity -- Equality" -- 7.2. Failure of "Modernization and Development" -- 7.3. Structural Domination and the Culture of Substantive Inequality -- 8. Another World Is Possible and Necessary -- 8.1. Myth of Ideological Neutrality and the Imposition of the Single-Ideology State -- 8.2. Emergence of Neoliberal Consensus -- 8.3. Capital's Structural Crisis and the Implosion of the Soviet System -- 8.4. Persistent Neglect of the National Question -- 8.5. Crisis in the Western Socialist Movement -- 8.6. Patriotism and Internationalism -- 8.7. Immediate and the Long Term: Continuity and Change in Socialist Strategy -- 8.8. Need to Redress Structural Inequality -- 8.9. Necessary Global Alternative -- 8.10. Social Subject of Emancipation and the Power of Emancipatory Ideology -- 9. Alternative to Parliamentarism -- 10. Reflections on the New International -- 11. Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change -- 12. Mountain We Must Conquer: Reflections on the State -- Introduction -- 12.1. End of Liberal-Democratic Politics -- 12.2. "Withering Away" of the State? -- 12.3. Wishful Limitation of State Power -- 12.4. Assertion of Might-as-Right -- 12.5. Eternalizing Assumptions of Liberal State Theory -- 12.6. Hegel's Unintended Swan Song and the Nation-State -- 12.7. Capital's Social Metabolic Order and the Failing State.

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