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What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About The Next American Revolution (2013)

by Gar Alperovitz(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1603584919 (ISBN13: 9781603584913)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Chelsea Green Publishing Company

review 1: Alpervotiz is an economist who exposes the lie of capitalistic democracy, neoliberalism or plutocracy or whatever you want to call our current state of government and offers an alternative vision of a society characterized by grassroots democracy, economic democracy and public ownership of vital sectors of society that addresses the huge inequities, climate change and the current imbalance of power. He points to examples where these things are taking place and offers a cautious hope of what our nation must move to if it is to continue operate.There are many pithy quotes but here is the most compelling for me: "A nation that proclaims a crewed based on centrally important values but continues to violate them in practice is setting itself up for challenges much more serious ... morethan the problems of "normal" politics. ....we will clearly be entering what social scientists term a 'legitimation crisis:' a time when the values that give legitimacy to the system no longer can, in fact, be achieved by the system." (p. 140). Anyone who cares about the future of the globe, much less the nation must read this book.
review 2: I've been working on a short book examining the contemporary condition as it applies to black politics. And I heard about this book from Marc Steiner. It was extremely helpful for my own work as it neatly consolidates a number of radical ideas that could fundamentally change the way we think about how economies should work. It's a neater, slimmer version of his AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM. But, like that book, I think the organization suffers a bit. There's not as much redundancy as there is in ABC, but it's still there. If an editor would've gone back over it once more I'd have given it one more star. With that said, if you're interested in thinking about what an alternative society could look like (if given a push) check it out. less

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