The Global Lakou World-System
Keywords:
Haitian Epistemology, Haitian Idealism, Vilokan Idealism, Vodou Ethic and The Spirit of Communism, Religiosity, Black Diaspora, Dialectical; Anti-Dialectical, Phenomenological Structuralism, Lakouism, The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism.
Abstract
This work highlights the Haitian sociopolitical economic organization, Lakous, as a form of libertarian communism that must be vertically integrated at the nation-state level so that people can experience total freedom from capitalist relations of production. I conclude the work by extrapolating the lakou system to the world-system level in order to offer it as an alternative to the Protestant capitalist world-system, which threatens all life on earth.
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Cohen, J. (2002). Protestantism and Capitalism: The Mechanisms of Influence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Crothers, C. (2003). Technical advances in general sociological theory: The potential contribution of post-structurationist sociology. Perspectives, 26(3), 3-6.
Dahrendorf, R. (1959). Class and class conflict in industrial society (Vol. 15). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Douglas, M. (1986). How Institutions Think. New York: Syracuse University Press.
Dubois, L. (2005). Avengers of the new world. Harvard University Press.
Fraser, N. (1997). Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition. New York & London: Routledge.
Holloway, J. E. (ed.) (1990a). Africanisms in American Culture. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Holloway, J. E. (1990b). The Origins of African-American Culture. In Joseph
Horkheimer, M., & Adorno, T. W. (2000 [1944]. Dialectic of Enlightenment (John Cumming, Trans.). New York: Continuum.
Hudson, K., & Coukos, A. (2005). The dark side of the Protestant ethic: A comparative analysis of welfare reform. Sociological Theory, 23(1), 1-24.
James, C. L. R. (1986). The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo. Revolution. Vintage.
Karenga, M. (1993). Introduction to Black Studies. California: The University of Sankore Press.
Kellner, D. (2002). Theorizing Globalization. Sociological Theory, 20:3, 285-305.
Kurtz, L. R. (2007). Gods in the Global Village: The World’s Religions in Sociological Perspective. California: Sage Publications.
Lukács, G. (1971). History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (Rodney Livingstone, Trans.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Lukács, G. (2000). A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic (Esther Leslie, Trans.). London and New York: Verso.
Marcuse, H. (1964). One-Dimensional Man. Boston: Beacon Press.
Marcuse, H. (1974). Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Boston: Beacon Press.
Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1964). The Communist Manifesto. London, England: Penguin Books.
Marx, K. (1992 /1867). Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Volume 1, Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, Trans.). New York: International Publishers.
Marx, K. (1998 /1845). The German Ideology. New York: Prometheus Books.
McMichael, P. (2008). Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. Los Angeles, California: Sage Publications.
Mocombe, P. C. (2016). The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism: The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti. Maryland: University Press of America.
Mocombe, P. C. (2009). The Soul-less Souls of Black Folk: A Sociological Reconsideration of Black Consciousness as Du Boisian Double Consciousness. Maryland: University Press of America.
Ortner, S. B. (1984). Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties. Comparative studies in society and history, 26(1), 126-166.
Patterson, O. (1982). Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Ramsey, K. (2011). The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Rubin, V. (1960). Caribbean Studies: A Symposium. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Sklair, L. (1995). Sociology of the Global System. Baltimore: Westview Press.
Smith M.G. (1960). The African Heritage in the Caribbean. In Vera Rubin (Ed.), Caribbean Studies: A Symposium (pp. 34-46). Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Wallerstein, I. (1982). The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis. In Hamza Alavi and Teodor Shanin (Eds.), Introduction to the Sociology of “Developing Societies” (pp. 29-53). New York: Monthly Review Press.
Weber, M. (1958 /1904-1905). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Talcott Parsons, Trans.). New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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2020-06-20
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Mocombe, P. C. (2020). The Global Lakou World-System. American International Journal of Social Science Research, 5(3), 24-28. https://doi.org/10.46281/aijssr.v5i3.629
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