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Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy : An American Crisis /

This book aims to further an understanding of present day America by exploring counter-hegemony to the rule of capital and offering guidelines for strategizing change proceeding from the dialectic of What Is and What Ought to Be. The author analyzes neoliberal global order and its political expressi...

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Main Authors: Johnson, Dale L
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
Subjects:
Political science
Political theory
United States > Politics and government
Critical theory
Social structure
Social inequality
Political Science and International Relations
US Politics
Social Structure, Social Inequality
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49043-4
Summary: This book aims to further an understanding of present day America by exploring counter-hegemony to the rule of capital and offering guidelines for strategizing change proceeding from the dialectic of What Is and What Ought to Be. The author analyzes neoliberal global order and its political expressions through discussions of the dominance of finance capital in the late twentieth century, the triumph of ideology, the closing of avenues to reform, the problem of the captive state, and a sociological analysis of rule by divide and conquer. The book concludes with a look at the history of moveme
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(VI,148pages).
ISBN: 9783319490434
Index Number: JC11
CLC: F171.2
Contents: 1. Money and the World it Creates -- 2. The Political Economy of Financialization and Its Consequences -- 3. Degenerative Development and Class Transformation -- 4. Ideology as the Root of Plutocratic Rule -- 5. The Ruling Class Rules by Subordinating Government to the Sway of Money -- 6. Rule by Divide and Conquer -- 7. The Ultimate Means of the Rule of Capital: Repression, Terror, and War -- 8. Globalization of Capital and its Ideologically Framed Policies -- 9. A Summary of Strategic Considerations -- 10. Confronting What Is to Achieve Counter-Hegemony -- 11. Some Tactical Considerations.

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