Capitalism Versus Democracy? Rethinking Politics in the Age of Environmental Crisis
Boris Frankel, "Capitalism Versus Democracy? Rethinking Politics in the Age of Environmental Crisis"
English | ISBN: 0648363341 | 2020 | 610 pages | EPUB | 830 KB
English | ISBN: 0648363341 | 2020 | 610 pages | EPUB | 830 KB
For over 150 years, political strategies and policies have been formed according to whether parties and movements believed that capitalism is either compatible or incompatible with democracy. This book challenges both supporters and opponents of the 'compatibility' thesis and calls for a rethink of politics in the age of environmental crises. It is divided into three parts. Part One critically questions the dominant narratives and assumptions held by many of the broad Left about the origins, causes and alternatives to our present condition. Part Two focuses on how prominent neo-Keynesians and Marxists have explained the crises of the past decade and why they are still operating with essentially pre-environmentalist conceptions of the conflict between 'capitalism and democracy'. Part Three offers one of the first detailed discussions of what kind of organisational, political economic and cultural issues that advocates of alternative post-carbon or post-capitalist societies will need to confront.
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