Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar

Dying for Capitalism (eBook, ePUB)

How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dying for Capitalism analyzes the "triangle of extinction" that links capitalism, environmental destruction, and militarism as a system that cannot sustain life on the planet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000907063
• Artikelnr.: 68301617

Autorenporträt

Charles Derber is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College and a noted public intellectual who has written 25 books, including several best-sellers reviewed in the NY Times, Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and other leading media. His books include Welcome to the Revolution, Sociopathic Society, Corporation Nation, People Before Profit, The Pursuit of Attention, The Wilding of America, and Greed to Green. With Suren Moodliar, he is a co-editor of the Routledge book series Universalizing Resistance. Derber, a life-long activist, has done hundreds of radio, television, internet, and film interviews by prominent media and commentators.

Suren Moodliar is a scholar and activist who helped found and manage encuentro5, a movement-building center in Boston. He is also managing editor of the journal, Socialism and Democracy. He is co-author of A People's Guide to Greater Boston (2020). He also co-edited and contributed to Turnout! Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency (2020) with Charles Derber and Matt Nelson, and to Internationalism or Extinction (2020) and Chomsky for Activists (2021) with Charles Derber and Paul Shannon. In the 1980s, Suren supported the national liberation movement in his home country, South Africa. He has also participated in public health, peace, solidarity, and pro-immigrant movements and labor organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - The Greatest Emergency of All Time PART I - The Hidden
System of Extinction 1 The Extinction Triangle: Capitalism, Environmental
Destruction and Militarism 2 Is Capitalism Too Hot? Corporate Capital,
Power, and Climate Change 3 Plague for Profit: Capitalism and Pandemic 4
Bloody Money: Capitalism, War, and the Doomsday Machine PART II - The US
and Extinction 5 America's "Extinction Exceptionalism" 6 Molecules of
Freedom? America's Climate of Exceptionalism 7 Inconvenient Truths:
Systemic Roots of US COVID-19 Failure 8 America the Not-So-Beautiful: The
US Doomsday Machine PART III - The Slender Path to Survival 9 Lessons &
Inspiration from the Abolitionists 10 Front for Survival: Movements, the
State, & Public Goods