David Barsamian

Richard Wolff

From prominent economist Richard Wolff and David Barsamian, a hot-button primer on the taboo subject impacting most Americans today: the failure of capitalism to deliver public good.

Challenging Capitalism

Occupy the Economy

What, and who, are we working for? A thoughtful assessment on our current society from “probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist” (The New York Times). Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. The solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers managing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy. Here Richard D. Wolff lays out a hopeful and concrete vision of how to make that possible, addressing the many people who have concluded economic inequality and politics as usual can no longer be tolerated and are looking for a concrete program of action. “Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times.” —Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hope and Prospects

A Cure for Capitalism

Democracy at Work

Tabea Michaelis

Philipp Klaus

Marc Angst

Rosmarie Müller

Industriearchitektur, Zwischennutzung, Stadtgeografie, Sozialgeografie, Immobilien Weltweit werden ehemalige Industrieareale mit neuen, nicht definitiven Nutzungen – sogenannten Zwischennutzungen – belegt. Sie beleben die Areale und füllen mit ihren vielfältigen Aktivitäten die Räume. Das Projekt zone*imaginaire hat Dutzende solcher Areale in der Schweiz und im Ausland zum Thema gemacht und in sieben ehemaligen Industriearealen in Aarau, Winterthur und Zürich eingehende Untersuchungen durchgeführt. Es darf von einem Pionierwerk gesprochen werden, da es europaweit erstmals systematisch die Aktivitäten in zwischengenutzten Arealen, deren Wert und Bedeutung, empirisch untersucht. Die Areale haben sich als spannende und innovative Gebiete erwiesen, als "Espaces de l'Imaginaire", wo vieles möglich ist. zone*imaginaire zeigt auch Wege auf, wie mit den Arealen planerisch verfahren werden kann: einerseits mit den Zwischennutzungen selber, andererseits mit Umnutzungsprozessen oder gar Modellen, die den Verbleib bisheriger Aktivitäten ermöglichen. Selbst ein Zwischennutzungsprojekt mit mobilen Immobilien, welches aus zone*imaginaire hervorgegangen ist, wird beschrieben. Dazu kommen Fotoportraits und Interviews mit Zwischennutzenden, Investoren sowie Stadt- präsidentInnen. Ein umfangreicher "Werkzeugkasten" am Ende des Buches liefert konkrete Instrumente und Anleitungen für die beteiligten Akteure. Zielpublikum: Fachleute aus Wirtschaft, Politik, Kultur und Raumplanung, Behörden, Arealeigentümer, Investoren und Zwischennutzende

Zwischennutzungen in Industriearealen

Zone*imaginaire

A concise guide covers the history, beliefs and practices, key leaders, and impact upon the modern world of major world religions, including Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Christianity.

The Popular Encyclopedia of World Religions

Traces the Wolff family back to 1770 in Alsace, Germany. Mathias Wolff was the first of his family to immigrate to Russia, settling in Odessa. This family history concentrates on the Wolff family in Europe. The text consists of lists of descendants with brief details on individuals.

Wolff Family History

Stephen Resnick

Rethinking Marxism

With a storied history of being fierce defenders against the Church's enemies, the members of the Order of Malta are professed "monk-warriors." They act as the noble, chivalrous, and battle-scarred knights while also the servant of the poor and sick. For hundreds of years, the Church has been indebted to them for their military prowess. But the Order of Malta was, and is, much more than what legend and history celebrate. From its twelfth-century foundation, it has been a religious order. At its core are the three evangelical vows that lay religious men and women (for much of the order's history) have taken. This book brings to the fore the religious nature of the order, so long overshadowed by its glorious military tradition and, more recently, its global charitable activities. It focuses not on the monk-warrior but on the twenty-plus members of the order who have been canonized and beatified for their extraordinary lives of love, prayer, and dedication. The book offers the reader a series of brief biographies on some of the most diverse groups of saints to come from one religious order, from peasants to popes and everything in between. In applying historical analysis to the lives of these holy men and women, the author demonstrates that one need not hide behind hagiographic generalities or far-fetched stories to find examples of true virtue in the lives of these Hospitallers.

The Canonized and Beatified from the Twelfth to the Twenty-First Century

Holy Men and Women of the Order of Malta

Everyone's Poetry Book A book that shows every poetry lover that modern poetry can be understandable Why should the lover of the beauty of language put up with unintelligibility in his own native tongue? Why should the reader of poetry face exile in searching for the best words in their best order? In reading Richard Wolff, you will see that "only the lover of language, someone on intimate terms with her impervious ways, can begin to know what 'the best words' and the 'best order' may be." ...John McCabe. You'll thus note that Richard Wolff prides himself on his clarity, concreteness, and adherence to the discipline of poetic structure...virtues much ignored in current literary circles. At their best moments, the results of the poems of this collection "create impressions of a voice of startling spontaneity." In Richard Wolff's pages, "Though we cannot always decipher why or how it happens, we rely on poetry to increase our knowledge of ourselves and to confirm us in the truth of our experience." ..."there courses through these poems one primary passion that serves to bind together and direct all the others: the poet's passion for Beauty." If therefore you can reach for only one book of modern poetry from your bookshelf, reach for Everyone's Poetry Book. In it you will find reward and fulfillment. Mr. Wolff spent most of his adult working life serving our nation in federal publishing, managing four Department of Defense printing plants in a 14 state Midwestern area. He and his wife, Nancy, live in northeast Illinois in Lindenhurst, close to the Illinois/Wisconsin border and have 17 natural born children: 12 girls and 5 boys.

Modern Poetry Can Be Understandable

Everyone's Poetry Book

Katherine Gibson

J. K. Gibson-Graham

Julie Graham

Re/presenting Class is a collection of essays that develops a poststructuralist Marxian conception of class in order to theorize the complex contemporary economic terrain. Both building upon and reconsidering a tradition that Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff—two of this volume’s editors—began in the late 1980s with their groundbreaking work Knowledge and Class, contributors aim to correct previous research that has largely failed to place class as a central theme in economic analysis. Suggesting the possibility of a new politics of the economy, the collection as a whole focuses on the diversity and contingency of economic relations and processes. Investigating a wide range of cases, the essays illuminate, for instance, the organizational and cultural means by which unmeasured surpluses—labor that occurs outside the formal workplace‚ such as domestic work—are distributed and put to use. Editors Resnick and Wolff, along with J. K. Gibson-Graham, bring theoretical essays together with those that apply their vision to topics ranging from the Iranian Revolution to sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta to the struggle over the ownership of teaching materials at a liberal arts college. Rather than understanding class as an element of an overarching capitalist social structure, the contributors—from radical and cultural economists to social scientists—define class in terms of diverse and ongoing processes of producing, appropriating, and distributing surplus labor and view class identities as multiple, changing, and interacting with other aspects of identity in contingent and unpredictable ways. Re/presenting Class will appeal primarily to scholars of Marxism and political economy. Contributors. Carole Biewener, Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg, Fred Curtis, Satyananda Gabriel, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Serap Kayatekin, Bruce Norton, Phillip O’Neill, Stephen Resnick, David Ruccio, Dean Saitta, Andriana Vlachou, Richard Wolff

Essays in Postmodern Marxism

Re/presenting Class

"This book is the result of the 7th conference of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA) 'Possible Urban Worlds' held in Zurich's Cultural Cenre Rote Fabrik and in the School and Museum of Art and Design, June 16 - 18. 1997"--Title page verso.

Urban Strategies at the End of the 20th Century

Possible Urban Worlds

Fighting sports may seem at odds with Christian tradition, yet modern ministries have embraced them as a means for evangelism and social outreach. While news media often sensationalize fighting sports, churches see them as a way to appeal to male congregants, presenting a peace-loving yet tough model of discipleship. From martial arts programs at suburban churches to urban boxing ministries geared towards at-risk youth, this book examines the substantial history of church sponsored training in combat sports, and presents arguments by Christian ethicists about their compatibility with church teachings and settings. Interviews with boxing and martial arts ministry leaders describe their programs and the relationship between fight sports and faith.

Boxing and Martial Arts Ministries in America

Fight Sports and the Church

Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular. This book brings together their key contributions and underscores their different interpretations. In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, the authors have confronted the basic incompatibilities among the dominant modern versions of Marxian theory, and the fact that Marxism seemed cut off from the criticisms of determinist modes of thought offered by post-structuralism and post-modernism and even by some of Marxism’s greatest theorists.

New Departures in Marxian Theory

A hot-button primer on the taboo subject impacting most Americans today: the failure of the capitalism to deliver public good.

DIVTwelve theoretical and historical essays emanate from a novel, shared poststructuralist conception of political economy./div

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