
Consequences of Capitalism
Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
$48.76
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2021
Summary
An essential primer on capitalism, politics, and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series ‘What is Politics?’
Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text, Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.
“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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241482612 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241482615 |
| Author: | Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 537g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 29mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Noam Chomsky is indispensable. Just as it is impossible to imagine appreciating the dramatic arts without learning Shakespeare, or loving jazz trumpet without an appreciation of Louis Armstrong, it is inconceivable that one might study contemporary political thought without reading Chomsky * Los Angeles Review of Books *
About The Author
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, On Anarchism, Masters of Mankind and Who Rules the World. He has also been the subject of numerous books of biography and interviews and has collaborated with journalists on books such as Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine. Noam 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.
Marvin 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 (co-authored with Ian Shaw) and Geographic Thought (co-edited with George Henderson).
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