The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada

The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada

The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada

The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada

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Overview

The global financial and industrial turmoil of recent years has once more brought the crisis-prone nature of the capitalist system to the forefront. In the context of economic stagnation and the retreat of working-class organizations, the rich and powerful around the world have redoubled their attack on the poor through neoliberal policies and austerity measures. In The Servant State, McCormack and Workman explore Canada’s experience through the “age of austerity” and highlight how this experience has been shaped by the exigencies of capitalist development and the catalyzing role of the Canadian state. The analytical standpoint is not that of the oppressed per se, but rather that of capitalism as a whole. They share the condemnation of the capitalist establishment, are appalled by the greed and avarice of the ruling elite and despair at the obscenities of the age; however, the critical spirit of their study is imbued less with a mood of indignation and more with assumptions and sensitivities about the inner tendencies of capitalism and the obliging role of the state. The struggle against contemporary excess and horror, they argue, must be framed with reference to the immuring tendencies of the capitalist order of things.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781552667842
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Publication date: 12/01/2015
Sold by: De Marque
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Geoffrey McCormack is an assistant professor of political science and global studies at Wheelock College in Boston.


Thom Workman received a PhD from York University. He is Professor of Political Science at University of New Brunswick - Fredericton. His research interests include political and social thought, critical political discourses, Marxism and labour history. He is currently involved in research projects on the political and social thought of A.N. Whitehead, ancient Greek thought on war and empire, and imperialism and Canada. Thom teaches courses on literature and politics, alternative political communities, alienation, modern political theory, political leadership, and conflict studies.


David McNally is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. He is the author of five previous books: Political Economy and the Rise of Capitalism (1988); Against the Market: Political Economy Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique (2003); Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor and Liberation (2001); Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism (2002; second revised edition 2006); and Monsters of the Market: Body Panics and Global Capitalism (2010). His articles have appeared in many journals, including Historical Materialism, Capital and Class, New Politics, and Review of Radical Political Economics. David McNally is also a long-time activist in socialist, anti-poverty and migrant justice movements.

Table of Contents

  • : Canada, Critique and Crisis
  • : Canada’s Experience Through the Global Slump
  • : Crisis, the Circuit of Capital and State Intervention
  • : Wages Through the Crisis Period
  • : The Hidden Agenda of Austerity
  • : Left Solitudes and the Wilting of the Political
  • : References
  • : Index

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