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Property for People, Not for Profit
The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics. Yet property lies at the heart of an economic system geared to profit maximization. The authors describe the historically specific and self-consciously explicit manner in which it emerged. They trace this history from earliest historical times and show how, in the hands of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in particular, the notion of private property took on its absolutist nature and most extreme form - a form which neoliberal economics is now imposing on humanity worldwide through the pressures of globalization. They argue that avoiding the destruction of people‘s ways of living and of Nature requires reshaping our notions of private property. They look at practical ways for social and ecumenical movements to press for alternatives.
Transcending Greedy Money
This major work offers an historical description and systematic analysis of the root causes of this global economic crisis, which the authors understand as a crisis of western civilization, and provides a comprehensive solution based on theological social justice.
Totalitarismo del mercado
El mundo se ve amenazado hoy por un nuevo totalitarismo. Las fuerzas que lo forman, no emanan del Estado sino de los poderes anónimos del mercado. Son estos poderes los que someten cada vez más a los poderes políticos a su lógica totalitaria. La canciller alemana Merkel decía: «La democracia tiene que ser conforme al mercado». De eso se trata, la democracia no responde al pueblo sino al mercado. Estamos frente a la disyuntiva de democracia o mercado: un mercado que se impone a todo, en todas partes y en cada momento, o el desarrollo de una democracia que responda a la voluntad de los pueblos y que exija que un mercado sea conforme a la democracia, en cuyo centro debe estar el ser huma...
Journal of Latin American Theology, Volume 19, Number 1
The articles in this issue of the Journal of Latin American Theology focus on history, mission, politics, migration, and worship. Luis Tapia Rubio discusses the colonial nature of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s sixteenth-century mission in Latin America and sits with the disturbing question of whether or not it is possible for Christian mission to be anything but colonial. Valdir Steuernagel summarizes key points from the Lausanne Congresses on World Evangelization and diagnoses current challenges leading up to Lausanne IV in September 2024. Darío López R. illustrates the antidemocratic nature of fundamentalist evangelicals active in Latin American politics through the case study of the 2021 ...
Property for People, Not for Profit
The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics. Yet property lies at the heart of an economic system geared to profit maximization. The authors describe the historically specific and self-consciously explicit manner in which it emerged. They trace this history from earliest historical times and show how, in the hands of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in particular, the notion of private property took on its absolutist nature and most extreme form - a form which neoliberal economics is now imposing on human.
Marx Matters
In Marx Matters noted scholars explore the way a Marxian political economy addresses contemporary social problems, demonstrating the relevance of Marx today and outlining how his work can frame progressive programs for social change.
Marx Worldwide
In his study Jan Hoff charts the new and unprecedented global boost that has been experienced by critical Marxism since the mid-1960s.
The Power of the Poor in History
Gustavo Gutierrez, the doyen of the Latin American liberation theologians, published his landmark 'A Theology of Liberation' in English in 1973. In 'The Power of the Poor in History' he presents in eight major essays his developing theological insights.
