David Schweickart
Biographic Data
| ID | 459034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Schweickart |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Schweickart |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWEICKART D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3829-4652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Where Have All the Leftists Gone
This paper, inspired by Duke University historian Nancy MacLean’s extraordinary book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (2017), elaborates the carefully calibrated, multifaceted plan by a billionaire-funded facet of the radical right, deeply disturbed by the fact that so many students have critical views of capitalism, to transform American universities. Its multi-pronged strategy involves the fo…
Against Capitalism
Capitalism is hegemonic today not because it is the best we fallible humans can do but because it supports, and is supported by, special interests of immense power. This book argues that Economic Democracy, a competitive economy of democratically run enterprises that replaces capitalist financial markets with more suitable institutions, will be more efficient than capitalism, more rational in its growth, more democratic, more egalitarian, and les…
Capitalism vs the Climate
We are facing a terrifying moment in human history, but also a miraculous moment. At the very time when climate change threatens our species with extinction, we not only know that we face an existential threat, we have the means not only to avert catastrophe, but to provide virtually everybody on our planet with the material means for decent life. This paper asks, and attempts to answer, a series of questions: Why are we not doing what needs to b…
After Capitalism (New Critical Theory)
The Biology and Philosophy of Race and Sex
Against Capitalism
Dr. Pangloss goes to market
David Ramsay Steele's From Marx to Mises argues correctly that the standard account of the economic calculation debate is a misrepresentation. Mises and Hayek were not bested by Lange and Taylor. However, it is not true, as Steele claims, that socialists have yet to face the Misesian challenge, nor that the debate over socialist calculation sheds much light on the recent collapse of communism. Steele's critiques of market socialism and worker sel…
Against Capitalism
Journal Article Against Capitalism: Studies in Marxism and Social Theory. Against Capitalism: Studies in Marxism and Social Theory. By Sghweickart David. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 387. £40.00 hardback, US $69.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 41851 8.) Keith Cowling Keith Cowling University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issue …
La démocratie économique. Un socialisme véritable et réalisable
The model for economic democracy sketched in this paper is based on three elements : 1) self-management ; 2) a market for commodities ; 3) the social ownership of means of production (as embodied in the obligation for firms to preserve the value of their capital intact) and social control over new investment through a public investment fund, financed through a tax on the firms' capital. This public fund is shared between banks, which in tum alloc…
Economic Democracy
have been. We all remember Marx's polemic against Proudhon, the Manifesto's critique of "historical action [yielding] to personal inventive action, historically created conditions of emancipation to fantastic ones, and the gradual spontaneous class organizations of the proletariat to an organization of society specially contrived by these inventors " (Marx and Engels, 1986, 64), and the numerous other occasions when the fathers of "scientific soc…
The State and Justice
Ethics, Efficiency and the Market
Understanding Marx
Robert Paul Wolff explains the development of the classical theory of value from Adam Smith to Karl Marx in a form readily accessible to readers unfamiliar with anything more than high school algebra, while at the same time offering to the specialist a fundamental criticism of Marxian political economy and an original and controversial interpretation of Capital. He clarifies recent mathematical reinterpretations of classical political economy, so…
On Robert Paul Wolff's Transcendental Interpretation of Marx's Labor Theory of Value
In a recent article Robert Paul Wolff has argued that Marx's theory of capitalist exploitation is incorrect, in that its ground is the premiss that labor is the source of all value.1 This, of course, is a well-rehearsed objection to Marx, but Wolff gives it a novel twist. He notes that the defense of this premise in the opening pages of Capital is inadequate, but he is not troubled by this ‘bad argument,’ for he sees Marx's real argument as somet…
Marxism and Alternatives
One: The Immanence of Marxism-Leninism.- 1. Emergence of the New Soviet Man.- 2. The Scientific-Technological Revolution.- 3. Dialectical Logic.- 4. The Dialectic of Nature.- 5. Meta-Marxism.- Two: The Transcendence of Neo-Thomism.- 6. Natural Law and the Common Good.- 7. Nature and Knowledge.- 8. Logic and Knowledge.- 9. Immateriality.- 10. The Predicamental Perspective.- Three: The Concreteness of Pragmatism.- 11. Context.- 12. Science and Prog…
Capitalism or Worker Control? An Ethical and Economic Appraisal
Should Rawls be a Socialist
Economic Democracy
have been. We all remember Marx's polemic against Proudhon, the Manifesto's critique of "historical action [yielding] to personal inventive action, historically created conditions of emancipation to fantastic ones, and the gradual spontaneous class organizations of the proletariat to an organization of society specially contrived by these inventors " (Marx and Engels, 1986, 64), and the numerous other occasions when the fathers of "scientific soc…
Capitalism vs the Climate
We are facing a terrifying moment in human history, but also a miraculous moment. At the very time when climate change threatens our species with extinction, we not only know that we face an existential threat, we have the means not only to avert catastrophe, but to provide virtually everybody on our planet with the material means for decent life. This paper asks, and attempts to answer, a series of questions: Why are we not doing what needs to b…
Should Rawls be a Socialist
Capitalism or Worker Control? An Ethical and Economic Appraisal
On Robert Paul Wolff's Transcendental Interpretation of Marx's Labor Theory of Value
In a recent article Robert Paul Wolff has argued that Marx's theory of capitalist exploitation is incorrect, in that its ground is the premiss that labor is the source of all value.1 This, of course, is a well-rehearsed objection to Marx, but Wolff gives it a novel twist. He notes that the defense of this premise in the opening pages of Capital is inadequate, but he is not troubled by this ‘bad argument,’ for he sees Marx's real argument as somet…
Marxism and Alternatives
One: The Immanence of Marxism-Leninism.- 1. Emergence of the New Soviet Man.- 2. The Scientific-Technological Revolution.- 3. Dialectical Logic.- 4. The Dialectic of Nature.- 5. Meta-Marxism.- Two: The Transcendence of Neo-Thomism.- 6. Natural Law and the Common Good.- 7. Nature and Knowledge.- 8. Logic and Knowledge.- 9. Immateriality.- 10. The Predicamental Perspective.- Three: The Concreteness of Pragmatism.- 11. Context.- 12. Science and Prog…
Understanding Marx
Robert Paul Wolff explains the development of the classical theory of value from Adam Smith to Karl Marx in a form readily accessible to readers unfamiliar with anything more than high school algebra, while at the same time offering to the specialist a fundamental criticism of Marxian political economy and an original and controversial interpretation of Capital. He clarifies recent mathematical reinterpretations of classical political economy, so…
The State and Justice
Ethics, Efficiency and the Market
Economic Democracy
have been. We all remember Marx's polemic against Proudhon, the Manifesto's critique of "historical action [yielding] to personal inventive action, historically created conditions of emancipation to fantastic ones, and the gradual spontaneous class organizations of the proletariat to an organization of society specially contrived by these inventors " (Marx and Engels, 1986, 64), and the numerous other occasions when the fathers of "scientific soc…
La démocratie économique. Un socialisme véritable et réalisable
The model for economic democracy sketched in this paper is based on three elements : 1) self-management ; 2) a market for commodities ; 3) the social ownership of means of production (as embodied in the obligation for firms to preserve the value of their capital intact) and social control over new investment through a public investment fund, financed through a tax on the firms' capital. This public fund is shared between banks, which in tum alloc…
Against Capitalism
Journal Article Against Capitalism: Studies in Marxism and Social Theory. Against Capitalism: Studies in Marxism and Social Theory. By Sghweickart David. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 387. £40.00 hardback, US $69.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 41851 8.) Keith Cowling Keith Cowling University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issue …
Against Capitalism
Dr. Pangloss goes to market
David Ramsay Steele's From Marx to Mises argues correctly that the standard account of the economic calculation debate is a misrepresentation. Mises and Hayek were not bested by Lange and Taylor. However, it is not true, as Steele claims, that socialists have yet to face the Misesian challenge, nor that the debate over socialist calculation sheds much light on the recent collapse of communism. Steele's critiques of market socialism and worker sel…
The Biology and Philosophy of Race and Sex
After Capitalism (New Critical Theory)
Against Capitalism
Capitalism is hegemonic today not because it is the best we fallible humans can do but because it supports, and is supported by, special interests of immense power. This book argues that Economic Democracy, a competitive economy of democratically run enterprises that replaces capitalist financial markets with more suitable institutions, will be more efficient than capitalism, more rational in its growth, more democratic, more egalitarian, and les…
Capitalism vs the Climate
We are facing a terrifying moment in human history, but also a miraculous moment. At the very time when climate change threatens our species with extinction, we not only know that we face an existential threat, we have the means not only to avert catastrophe, but to provide virtually everybody on our planet with the material means for decent life. This paper asks, and attempts to answer, a series of questions: Why are we not doing what needs to b…
Where Have All the Leftists Gone
This paper, inspired by Duke University historian Nancy MacLean’s extraordinary book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (2017), elaborates the carefully calibrated, multifaceted plan by a billionaire-funded facet of the radical right, deeply disturbed by the fact that so many students have critical views of capitalism, to transform American universities. Its multi-pronged strategy involves the fo…
Economics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Capitalism (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Neoclassical economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works)