| 7 | NEW REALITIES AND THE FUTURE OF MANKIND (In Lieu of an Introduction) |
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| IN THE LABYRINTHS OF THE GENERAL CRISIS | |
| 26 | 1. This Age of Abrupt Social Change |
| 30 | 2. The Reserves of Capitalism |
| 38 | 3. A Phase of Destabilisation |
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| FROM THE STEAM-ENGINE TO THE COMPUTER SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MAN | |
| 45 | 1. Capitalism and Scientific and Technical Progress |
| 49 | 2. Science and Technology Today and Tomorrow |
| 59 | 3. Some Social Problems at the New Stage of the STR |
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| THE TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND FINANCE CAPITAL TODAY | |
| 66 | 1. Monopoly Today: A General Outline |
| 69 | 2. From National to Transnational Monopolies and Banks |
| 71 | 3. TNCs: Chief Forms of Operation |
| 74 | 4. TNCs and the Capitalist Economy |
| 76 | 5. The Web of Bank Control in the "Electronic Payments" Age |
| 80 | 6. The Transnational Banks |
| 85 | 7. Finance Capital in the International Arena |
| 88 | 8. The TNCs Are Increasingly Interfering in Politics |
| 90 | 9. Against the TNC Domination |
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| THE MODERN LEVIATHAN: THE STATE AND ITS ROLE IN THE ECONOMY | |
| 93 | 1. A Historical Retrospect |
| 96 | 2. A "Mixed Economy": How Mixed? |
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The End. 3. Expenditures, Taxes, Deficits and Debts 4. Regulation: Instruments and Purposes 5. The Zigzags of State Intervention in the Economy [6] Capitalist Planning 7. Right-Wing Conservatives: What Is New in Economic Policy? 5 THE MOLOCH OF IMPERIALISM [introduction.] 1. Militarism, the Last Hope of Survival 2. Towering Stockpiles of Weapons 3. The Stake on Military Strength 4. The Economic Burden 5. A Scourge for the Working People 6 BOGGED DOWN IN CRISIS 1. Contradictions of Capitalist Socialisation 2. Postwar Cycles: the General and the Particular 3. New Features of Cyclical Development: 1970s and 1980s 4. The Crises and Uneven Development 7 THE WORLD ECONOMY AND THE RECARVING OF SPHERES OF INFLUENCE 1. The Formation of Three Centres 2. Internationalisation and National Facilities 3. Labour as an Object of Struggle for Spheres of Domination 4. Uneven Development and Polycentrism Today 5. The World Capitalist Market and Inter-Imperialist Contradictions 6. International Manifestations of the Basic Contradiction of Capitalism 8 THE THIRD WORLD: POVERTY AND PROGRESS 1. The Web of Dependence 2. Does Capitalism Grow from Inside? 3. The Latin American Model 4. The Oil Tycoons 5. The Realm of Hunger and Poverty 6. The Dual Evil of "Underdeveloped Capitalism" 7. No Progress Without Struggle 9 THE WAVES OF CLASS CONFRONTATION 1. New Pattern of Social Forces 2. Mass Unemployment Society 3. Strategy of Social Revenge 4. New Frontiers Ahead 5. The Communist Movement in Face of the New Realities 10 WHITHER THE POLITICAL SHIP OF STATE: LEFT OR RIGHT? 1. Party and Power 2. Time of Bourgeois Reformism 3. Myths Are Myths 4. Political Forces Polarised 5. The Burgeoning Forces 11 THE FORTUNES OF BOURGEOIS DEMOCRACY 1. Apropos of a Criterion 2. What Is Neo-Corporatism ? 3. STR and Thought Control 4. Democracy and Militarism 5. Freedom and Equality: Slogans and Reality 12 INTiiiiiNATiGiXAj, SECUitfi’y iJN THE WUCLiiAK AMi SPACE AGE 1. Realism of New Political Thinking 2. The New Formulation of the Question of Security 3. The System-Forming Role of Disarmament 3.[sic] The Building of a Secure World—a Cause for All Countries and Nations 13 CAPITALISM AGAINST MANKIND 1. The Contradictory but Interdependent World 2. Facing Global Problems 3. Is Evil Inevitable? 4. “Global” Apologetics of Capitalism 5. New Forms of Public Movement 6. The Monopolies “Solve” the Problems 7. A Symptom of the Exhaustion of Possibilities 8. The Socialist Alternative and International Co-operation 14 THE DEGRADATION OF CULTURE AND MORALITY 1. Ideals and Goals 2. Total Propaganda 3. The Psychology of Fear 4. Information Imperialism 5. The Power of Advertising 6. Mass Culture 15 A HISTORICAL TURNING POINT: THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILISATION 1. Rapid and Paradoxical Change 2. Tectonic Shifts 3. The Appropriation of Man 4. Squall of Contradictory Assessments 5. The Hard Road of Revolution |
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