How To Guide to Cosmopolitan Socialism
A Tribute to Michael Brooks
Published on 15. August 2023
1 pages
978-1-78279-317-5 (ISBN)
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Socialism has always had internationalist ambitions, but what those ambitions should be and how to rethink them in the 21st century remain open questions. Before his tragic passing in 2020, Michael Brooks talked about a new kind of cosmopolitan socialism that would be appropriate for our time. A How To Guide To Cosmopolitan Socialism builds upon Brooks' vision to argue that we need a left which knows no boundaries and recognizes the fundamental moral equality of all individuals on the planet while securing the material conditions for their flourishing. Only such a sweeping vision can successfully combat the forces of reaction and violence confronting us today.
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English
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New York
United Kingdom
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Collective Ink
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0,68 MB
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978-1-78279-317-5 (9781782793175)
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Matthew McManus is Lecturer at the University of Michigan, where he teaches political science and theory. Before assuming this position, he was Professor of Politics at Whitman College, and also worked for the Committee for International Justice and Accountability. He completed his PhD in 2017. He is the editor of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times, publishing by Zero Books in 2020. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by Ben Burgis
- Preface
- Chapter One: Socialism, Liberalism and Cosmopolitanism
- A Citizen of the World
- The Origins of Just War Theory
- St Augustine, City of God
- Early Liberalism and Capitalism in Grotius, Hobbes and Locke
- Immanuel Kant and Liberal Cosmopolitanism
- Early Socialism and Internationalism
- Welfarism, Anti-Colonialism and Twentieth-Century Cosmopolitanism
- Chapter Two: Neoliberal Internationalism
- Making the World Safe for Capitalism Again
- The Sublime Market
- Civilization Must Be Defended
- Conclusion: All That Is Solid Melts into Air
- Chapter Three: Neoconservatism, Post-Modern Conservatism and Global Capitalism
- A Society Focused on the Next Refrigerator
- The War on Terror I: Empire Lite
- The War on Terror II: The Attack on Cosmopolitan Institutions
- Neoconservatism as the Ideological Supplement to Neoliberalism
- Post-Modern Conservatism and Nationalism
- Conclusion: The Need for Cosmopolitan Socialism
- Chapter Four: What Would a Cosmopolitan Socialism Look Like?
- The Lessons of Militant Particularism
- Michael Brooks' Cosmopolitan Socialism I
- Michael Brooks' Cosmopolitan Socialism II
- Arguing for Cosmopolitan Socialism from a Marxist Standpoint
- Arguing for Cosmopolitan Socialism from a Moral Standpoint
- Building and Democratizing International Institutions
- Securing Global Equality
- Conclusion: Constructing a Shared World Together
- Back Cover
