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oapen-20.500.12657-502562021-07-29T02:38:27Z Destroying Democracy Duncan, Jane Gordon, Linda Kaaf, Gunnett McKinley, Dale Nilsen, Alf Gunvald Pillay, Devan Radebe, Mandla J. Saad-Filho, Alfredo Satgar, Vishwas Solty, Ingar Williams, Michelle Williams, Michelle Satgar, Vishwas neoliberal capitalism; democratic capitalism; neoliberalism; authoritarianism; eco-fascism; democracy; populism; fascism; nationalism; far-right; fossil fuels; climate change; media freedoms and surveillance; USA; India; Brazil; South Africa bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics Destroying Democracy, volume six of the Democratic Marxism series, focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, rising authoritarianism is expressing itself in divisive and exclusionary politics, populist political parties and movements, increased distrust in fact-based information and news, and the withering accountability of state institutions. Over the last four decades, democracy has radically shifted to a market democracy in which all aspects of human, non-human and planetary life are commodified and corporations have become more powerful than states and their citizens. This is how neoliberal capitalism functions at a systemic level and if left unchecked is the greatest threat to democracy and a sustainable planet. The authors home in on four country cases – India, Brazil, South Africa and the United States of America to interrogate issues of politics, ecology, state security, media, access to information and political parties, and affirm the need to reclaim and re-build an expansive and inclusive democracy. The book is an invaluable resource for all who are interested in understanding the threats to democracy and the rising tide of authoritarianism in the global south and the global north. 2021-07-28T09:14:29Z 2021-07-28T09:14:29Z 2021 book 9781776146994 9781776146994 9781776147014 9781776147021 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50256 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781776147045_WEB.pdf Wits University Press 10.18772/22021086994 10.18772/22021086994 c522c2dd-daf5-4926-bf1a-ee1557d24a4b 9781776146994 9781776146994 9781776147014 9781776147021 248 Johannesburg open access
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Destroying Democracy, volume six of the Democratic Marxism series, focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, rising authoritarianism is expressing itself in divisive and exclusionary politics, populist political parties and movements, increased distrust in fact-based information and news, and the withering accountability of state institutions. Over the last four decades, democracy has radically shifted to a market democracy in which all aspects of human, non-human and planetary life are commodified and corporations have become more powerful than states and their citizens. This is how neoliberal capitalism functions at a systemic level and if left unchecked is the greatest threat to democracy and a sustainable planet. The authors home in on four country cases – India, Brazil, South Africa and the United States of America to interrogate issues of politics, ecology, state security, media, access to information and political parties, and affirm the need to reclaim and re-build an expansive and inclusive democracy. The book is an invaluable resource for all who are interested in understanding the threats to democracy and the rising tide of authoritarianism in the global south and the global north.
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