Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

by Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone

Overview

Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands.’

How does politics shape our world, our lives and our perceptions? How much of 'common sense' is actually driven by the ruling classes' needs and interests? And how are we to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet?

Consequences of Capitalism exposes the deep, often unseen connections between neoliberal 'common sense' and structural power. In making these linkages, we see how the current hegemony keeps social justice movements divided and marginalized. And, most importantly, we see how we can fight to overcome these divisions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642592634
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	01/05/2021
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	196,763
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 7, 1928. He studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1955, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. Chomsky is the author of numerous best-selling political works, which have been translated into scores of countries worldwide. Among his most recent books are Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Who Rules the World-yet, Requiem for the American Dream, and What Kind of Creatures Are We?

Marv Waterstone is Professor Emeritus in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona, where he has been a faculty member for over 30 years. He is also the former director of the University of Arizona Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies. His research and teaching focus on the Gramscian notions of hegemony and common sense, and their connections to social justice and progressive social change. His most recent books are Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press; co-authored with Ian Shaw) and Geographic Thought: A Praxis Perspective (Routledge; co-edited with George Henderson).

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Chapter 1 Common Sense, the Taken-for-Granted, and Power 1

Chapter 2 The Current Common Sense: Capitalist Realism 49

Chapter 3 Capitalism and Militarism 93

Chapter 4 Capitalism versus the Environment 153

Chapter 5 Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Financialization 203

Chapter 6 Resistance and Response 255

Chapter 7 Social Change 299

Capitalism and Covid-19: A Concluding Coda 335

Further Resources 345

Index 361