Revolutions in reverse
"Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it's impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Yet faced with this prospect, the knee-jerk reaction is often to cling to what exists because they simply can't imagine an alternative that wouldn't be ev…
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- Full title :Revolutions in reverse / David Graeber.
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"Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it's impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Yet faced with this prospect, the knee-jerk reaction is often to cling to what exists because they simply can't imagine an alternative that wouldn't be even more oppressive and destructive. The political imagination seems to have reached an impasse. Or has it? In this collection of essays David Graeber explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade, debt, imagination, violence, aesthetics, alienation, and creativity. Written in the wake of the anti-globalization movement and the rise of the war on terror, these essays survey the political landscape for signs of hope in unexpected places"--Page [4] de la couv.
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- Publication Date:2011?
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- Publisher(s):Minor Compositions
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011?
Notes
Sur la couv.: Essays on politics, violence, art, and imagination.
The Physical Object
- Description:114 p. ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781570272431, 1570272433
- oclc:ocn848174960
- LC Classification:HM876 G73 2011
- Dewey Decimal:303.484
Table of Contents
The shock of victory -- Hope in common -- Revolution in reverse -- Army of altruists -- The sadness of post-workerism -- Against kamikaze capitalism.
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