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作者：秃公 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Marx for a Post-Communist Era: On Poverty, Corruption and Banality by S. Sullivan
Editorial Reviews
Review
Possibly the most stigmatized thinker in the west, Marx has been distorted or co-opted by friends and foes alike. In a sober journalistic style, Stefan Sullivan's Marx for a Post-Communist Era reinvigorates a Marxist critique tarnished by esoteric scholasticism, party sloganeering and simplistic refutations.
–John Huntington, Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, Washington D.C.
Sullivan's clear and lucid retelling of the cultural origins and history of Marxism and economic theory is unparalleled.
–C. Jason Smith Reconstruction
Sullivan's book is invigorating: readable and relevant in telling detail, it dissects the economic, political and cultural consequences of a world society driven by profit and greed. A marvelously humane and hopeful critique of the dominant ideology.
–Prof. David McLellan, University of Kent
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, most scholars and policymakers embraced an end of history euphoria - in short, now that the USSR was dead, all the world would increasingly adopt Western forms of political and economic governance (free markets and elections). And that was sufficient. Of course the events of the past few years, from the Crises in Asia and Russia to the attacks of September 11 have called this view into question. What first principles are there to help us move beyond the clichs and develop some sound analytical lenses? Stefan Sullivan, bucking all trends, builds a compelling argument about why Marx is still very important to understand current issues in international political economy and culture. Revisiting is not to say that the USSR will be back, but rather it is to appreciate what insights we find in the writings of one of the most important social theorists of the modern era.
–Prof. Gerald McDermott, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Book Description
Marx for a Post-Communist Era: On Poverty, Corruption and Banality is a clear and accessible exploration of why Marx still matters today. Despite the countless autopsies on Marx that followed the collapse of the iron curtain, many argue that Marxist ideas are as relevant as ever in the post-communist world.
Stefan Sullivan begins with a historical overview of Marx and the development of Marxist thought, before concentrating on the application of Marx's ideas to specific post-1989 features of global capitalism. He shows that that core capitalist obstacles to freedom predicted by Marx - poverty, corruption and banality - continue to hold relevance in the modern world. By examining each of these themes in turn, Sullivan demonstrates the critical potential of Marxist thought in the twenty-first century and sheds light on our understanding of contemporary economics, politics and culture.
Marx for a Post Communist Era combines a deep understanding of Marxist thought with journalistic engagement in real world themes. Stefan Sullivan draws on examples including the 2000 US Presidential elections, Russian tax evasion, the recent protests against the World Bank and the IMF, the ascent of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, and the fascination with fake theme bars, ethno-chic fashion and the retro-trend in design. In doing so, he highlights Marx's legacy outside the academic world.
**Love it. I am going to get this book.
&& This 石之瑜 did an anlysis in depth, PF!
關 於 「 貧 窮 」 的 政 治 學
石之瑜
台灣大學政治學系
北市徐州路二十一號
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大綱：政治學雖然沒有直接處理貧窮的問題，但是在政治學的研究議程上，貧窮卻是一個無所不在的課題。不同的政治理論如自由主義、馬克斯主義、制度主義、儒家思想、社會主義，對貧窮的定義與分析亦不同，所以改善貧窮現象的策略就不同。本文根據在湖南省永順縣考察扶貧工作時的訪談資料，讀出了隱含各種立場的貧窮論述，貧窮所指涉的內涵，包括收入、溫飽、生產條件、效益動機與生態環境。雖然可以抽象地定義貧窮，但實踐中卻很難客觀地界定貧窮，使得縣政府、扶貧隊、村幹部與村民都得以參與詮釋貧窮。其中生態扶貧的提法將落後與先進，匱乏與豐富等相對的概念統合在一起，最具有在論述上產生突破效果的潛能，使得貧窮這個原本由國家機器所建構的論述，具有了不可壟斷的意義空間。
Abstract: Poverty is not a subject matter familiar to most political scientists although their research agenda refers to poverty in one way or another, mostly indirectly. There is no shared meaning of poverty among liberals, Marxists, institutionalists, Confucianists, and socialists. As a result, their approaches to poverty differ from one another widely. This paper reports on field interviews of poverty-eliminating teams conducted in Yongshuen County, Western Hunan. From the interviews, indeed poverty means quite different things when different people on different sites refer to it at different times. Poverty can be indicated by income, life necessity, productive infrastructure, motivation for higher profit and ecological condition. County officials, team members, village cadres and villagers all participate in negotiating the meaning of poverty. The theoretical implication for political scientists is that the state is no longer able to monopolize the poverty discourse.
關鍵詞：貧窮，扶貧，政治學，湖南省，湘西自治州，永順縣，生態
Keywords: poverty, poverty-eliminating project, political science, Hunan, Western Hunan Autonomous Prefecture, Yongshuen County, ecology
關 於 「 貧 窮 」的 政 治 學
湖南省永順縣扶貧考察的省思
一﹑「貧窮」的政治學
雖然沒有人這樣理解政治學，但似乎不可否認的是，除了是關於權力、 價值、 管理、 教化 等概念之外，政治很難完全避免所謂的貧窮問題。甚至於貧窮總是在多數政治學議程上忽隱忽現，有時是問題的重心，比如關於革命、 正義、 現代化 的研究，貧窮往往可以視為是一個根本起作用的因素，藉以解釋政治參與的行為。在其他時候，貧窮則似乎躲在研究議程的背後，雖然並非研究者立即直接關心的課題，卻又好像是一個不可或缺的前提。比如，關於國際衝突的研究涉及生存資源稀少所引發的國家對立， 國家社會學研究涉及社會福利的納入或排擠， 民主化研究涉及公民個人參政能力與資源是否充分或平等， 全球化研究涉及跨國奴工或勞動階級意識的萌生。 如果把政治學看做貧窮學，想必所研究的課題不會發生太大的變動。
可是政治學者迄今並未認真面對貧窮，貧窮的概念被習以為常地藉用，但貧窮的意義為何，不僅在百家爭鳴的政治理論之間出現各有千秋的處理，且在政治實踐上，也對不同的人在不同的時間點上，產生了不同的意義。不但政治學家沒有發展出分析貧窮的工具，就連政治人物都缺乏有效處理貧窮問題的政策手段。就像政治領導人通常不願意承認，貧窮可以成為自己執政下的一種典型社會徵候，政治學者也不願意面對的是，政治理論所賴以奠基的貧窮現象，其意義並未為研究者所妥適掌握。所以，即使當政治人物聲稱自己在解決貧窮問題，或政治學者利用貧窮的概念來解釋政治行為，卻都沒有花時間探究它們之間的所謂
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Hans J. Morgenthau, Scientific Man vs. Power Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Pres, 1949).
David Easton, The Political System: An Inquiry into the States of Political Science (New York: Knofp, 1953).
Austin Ranney, Governing: A Brief Introduction to Political Science (Hinsdale, Ill.: Dryden Press, 1975).
Lucian Pye, Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1885).
相對剝奪理論由此萌生，Ted Gurr, Why Men Rebel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970).
即分配的公平性如何判準的問題，如John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971).
所謂發展與成長的問題，Walt Whitman Rostow, Politics and the Stages of Growth (Cambridge: Cambriadge University Press, 1971).
Robert Tucker, The Inequality among Nations (New York: Basic Books, 1977).
Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of the Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992)
Manus I. Midlarsky (ed.), Inequality, Democracy and Economic Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
James H. Middleman, The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
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