1995 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Veblenian and Neo-Marxian Perspectives on the Cultural Crisis of Late Capitalism
Author : James Ronald Stanfield
Published in: Economics, Power and Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.
Select sections of text to find matching patents with Artificial Intelligence. powered by
Select sections of text to find additional relevant content using AI-assisted search. powered by
This chapter seeks to draw attention to the psychocultural consequences of the systemic late capitalist response to economic crises and to the need for a research agenda to delineate and evaluate these consequences. The work of Veblen and recent American neo-Marxists is suggested as the basis for a start toward developing this research agenda. I use the term neo-Marxism loosely to encompass a variety of scholars who share a common point of departure in Marx’s social theory, but insist that Marx’s categories do not capture the essential tendencies of existing capitalism and socialism (Brown, 1988, p. 9).