03759nam 22006135 450 991016515370332120200703164819.03-319-49043-510.1007/978-3-319-49043-4(CKB)3710000001064997(DE-He213)978-3-319-49043-4(MiAaPQ)EBC4806561(iGPub)SPNA0049191(PPN)259474665(EXLCZ)99371000000106499720170216d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSocial Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy[electronic resource] An American Crisis /by Dale L. Johnson1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (VI, 274 p.) Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice3-319-49042-7 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.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.Critical Political Theory and Radical PracticePolitical theoryUnited States—Politics and governmentSocial structureSocial inequalityCritical theoryPolitical Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911010US Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911180Social Structure, Social Inequalityhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010Critical Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E44010Political theory.United States—Politics and government.Social structure.Social inequality.Critical theory.Political Theory.US Politics.Social Structure, Social Inequality.Critical Theory.320.01Johnson Dale Lauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut119964BOOK9910165153703321Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy2124889UNINA