Capitalism and the National Question in Canada / / ed. by Gary Teeple.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bourque, Gilles,; Bronson, H.E.,; Howard, Roger,; Johnson, Leo A.,; Laurin-Frenette, Nicole,; Lipton, Charles,; Morris, R.B.,; Naylor, R.T.,; Ryerson, Stanley B.,; Scott, Jack,; Teeple, Gary,
• HerausgeberIn: Teeple, Gary,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Capitalism is the accepted, and so intellectually an almost invisible, way of life in Canada. Very little has been thought or published about Canada that uses a Marxist critique of capitalism and its dynamics, and this book aims to advance such thinking by analysing the reasons for the openness of the dominion to capitalist domination, first by Europeans and then by Americans, to labour domination from the United States, and to a sell-out policy in regard to its land and farms. The dependency of the Canadian ruling class on foreign capitalists is an important factor in Canada’s continued colonial-mindedness, and the rise of nationalism in Quebec is based on the inevitabilities of the class antagonisms set up by capitalism. The authors believe that it is only through such Marxist theory and practice that a way can be found for Canada to escape at last from imperialist exploitation and that a way can be found to shape a socialist future for the whole country.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- The rise and fall of the third commercial empire of the St Lawrence -- Land, labour, and capital in pre-Confederation Canada -- International unions and the ideology of class collaboration -- The reverter clause and break-aways in Canada -- Canadian unionism -- Continentalism and Canadian agriculture -- The development of class in Canada in the twentieth century -- Social classes and nationalist ideologies in Ouebec, 1760-1970 -- Quebec: concepts of class and nation -- 'Liberals in a hurry': socialism and the CCF-NDP -- Appendix