Moderation and Revolution

Andrea Micocci teaches economics at the University of Malta Link Campus, Rome, and International Economic Policies at the Facolta di Studi Politici e per l'Alta Formazione Europea e Mediterranea Jean Monnet of Seconda Universita of Naples, San Leucio (CS), Italy.

In the intellectuality of capitalism there are two alternative ways to conceive of reality: the moderate one, which mediates dialectically, and the revolutionary one, which also comprises ruptures with disappearance. The former conforms to, and helps shape, the metaphysics of capitalism itself. The second is akin to the mode of progressing of nature in general, and forms the basis for materialism. Moderate positions tend to be intolerant because they do not recognize the other, which is constantly compelled to mediate. Revolutionary positions instead, recognizing the other, are tolerant and intrinsically non-violent. In capitalism as we know it liberalism, Marxism and anarchism would potentially be revolutionary. But they have been transformed in moderate modes of thought, similar for instance to nationalism, communitarianism, Christian ideas, fascism, socialism. Thus capitalism has become an intolerant world that seems built to block, by means of mediations, its own historical evolution. The outcome is a fascistic economy and polity.

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Individual, State, Community Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Contradiction, Mediation, Opposition Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Capitalism, Politics and Political Theories Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Pretended Variety of Economic Ideas Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Classical Liberalism Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Economic Liberalism Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Utopian Socialisms and Russian Nihilism Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Marx Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Marxisms. Leninism and Stalinism, Trotzkysm Chapter 11 Chapter 10. Anarchism Chapter 12 Chapter 11. Revisions of Marxism, Fall of the Totalitarian "Socialist" Regimes Chapter 13 Chapter 12. Democratic Theories, Conservatism Chapter 14 Chapter 13. Christian Ideas of Social Reform Chapter 15 Chapter 14. Nationalism, Racism Chapter 16 Chapter 15. Imperialism, Theories of Underdevelopment Chapter 17 Chapter 16. Fascisms Chapter 18 Chapter 17. Communitarianism and Neoliberalism Chapter 19 Chapter 18. New Ideas or New Movements? Chapter 20 Chapter 19. Terrorism Chapter 21 Chapter 20. Moderation against Revolution, Tolerance