00936nam a2200169 450000500170000002000180001704100120003508200150004708400250006210000210008724500560010825000060016426000310017030000100020150005400021165000150075120251216115155.0 a9788195639236 aEnglish a330bPAT/B 2Colon Classification aPatnaik, Prabhat aBeyond Liberalism : Economics, Philosophy, Politics a1 aNew Delhi:bTulika,c2025. a222p. aThis book is a Marxist critique of liberalism. Prabhat Patnaik demonstrates that liberalism and Marxism provide vastly differing accounts of individual freedom and the forces that restrict it. In the Marxist view, people, contrary to appearances, lack real agency under capitalism. Competition coerces individuals to act according to the impersonal logic of capitalism, making them mere instruments of the system. In this way, capitalism creates universal alienation, and true individual freedom is possible only through overcoming it. aLiberalism