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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Charles Derber , Suren MoodliarPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.639kg ISBN: 9781032512792ISBN 10: 1032512792 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 24 July 2023 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction - 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 GoodsReviewsOne might not think that a book about Dying for Capitalism would be easy to read and exciting to absorb, but this one is. Derber and Moodliar present a solid analysis about how runaway capitalism, climate change and militarism (with its threat of nuclear war) create the perfect storm that threatens human survival, and present it in digestible and elegant prose with many ah-ha moments along the way. Best of all, they wrap it in an urgent call for a 21st century movement to abolish carbon emissions and nuclear weapons, taking inspiration from the movement to abolish slavery. They make the impossible seem not only possible, but essential for continued life on this planet. Read it and jump into the movement waters that will nourish your soul and might just save the planet. Medea Benjamin Cofounder of Code Pink and Global Exchange, author of War in Ukraine, winner of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Peace prizes An eloquent call for abolition of fossil fuels, very soon. Dying for Capitalism is carefully reasoned and informed, spelling out what we can and must do, without delay. Noam Chomsky University of Arizona, Emeritus Professor, MIT This must read cogent book dissects the interconnected systemic crisis bringing us to the brink of extinction. Dying for Capitalism illuminates the threads of the poly-crisis driven by extractive capitalism, ecological destruction, and entrenched militarism. Read it and weep -and then roll up your sleeves and engage. Chuck CollinsCo-editor, Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies; author of Altar to an Erupting Sun Author InformationCharles 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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