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Record Nr.

UNINA9910165153703321

Autore

Johnson Dale L

Titolo

Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy [[electronic resource] ] : An American Crisis / / by Dale L. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-49043-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 274 p.)

Collana

Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political theory

United States—Politics and government

Social structure

Social inequality

Critical theory

Political Theory

US Politics

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Critical Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 movement politics in culture, arts, economics, and politics. It resounds with a hope that challenges to hegemony can use many paths to change, of which the electoral path is but one of many fronts, in the long-term struggle for radical reform.