iktisadi Aklın Eleştirisi

Capitalists declared that "the left is dead" with the joy of creating a more suitable "savage" environment for them after the collapse of the "wall". However, what died was real-socialism, which took on an inhumane quality because it could not leave the platform of capitalism...

Gorz, who was against real-socialism before the fall of the "Wall", shows the similarities of capitalism and real-socialism in this book and says that they are actually dead. And it shows that an alternative socialism that transcends them is possible now. The collapse of capitalism and real-socialism, the two-century-old utopia of industrial societies, is the cause of this crisis, not modernity, but the premises on which modernity is based; He discusses the possibilities of a new socialist utopia, saying that it is not a crisis of reason, but of rationalizations. First of all, it rejects the economic rationality in which "everything can be counted and sold" and "more is more valuable". While he harshly criticizes the "work" sanctified by the economic mind, he also questions the concepts of production, consumption and efficiency. According to him, "work" has been turned into worship by capitalism, the child of modernity, for religious and irrational reasons. Real-socialism, which borrowed the "work ideology" of capitalism, replaced the puritan ethics with "socialist homeland" and "party" ethics, leaving the essence and hierarchy of "work" untouched, thus contributing to the enslavement and alienation of people. Gorz, on the other hand, argues that an alternative socialism should essentially be a "leisure society". Happiness depends not on consumption and work, but on the intensity of emotional and cultural exchange; He explains that "free time" allows for creativity, the development of the ability to live together, art, play and love. And it draws attention to the answer to the question "Do we live to work or do we work to live", regardless of the social organization it is under. This answer will also show what kind of society we want to live in and the nature of the meaning we give to life.

To those who are looking for a livable and feasible utopia in the face of the brutality of capitalism... To those who believe that a new socialism cannot be established without questioning the "economic mind" that reduces everything to an understanding that is counted, sold and consumed... To those who think that love, compassion, friendship and love are more important than production... And to those who refuse to go to work one morning to touch their lovers...



Number of Pages: 296

Year of Printing: 2007


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Print Year: 2007

Language Turkish