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Postcapitalism: A Guide To Our FutureStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionOver the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system by which entire societies function, has reached its limits and is changing into something wholly new. 'An original, engaging, and bracingly articulated vision of real alternatives, it is sure to spark many vigorous debates, and they are precisely the ones we should be having.' Naomi Klein ReviewsEcological crisis signals the death knell for an economic system that was already profoundly failing us, as Paul Mason mercilessly illustrates in these pages. Building on a remarkable career's worth of reporting on the frontlines of global capitalism and worker resistance, this book is an original, engaging, and bracingly-articulated vision of real alternatives. It is sure to many spark vigorous debates, and they are precisely the ones we should be having. -- Naomi Klein After postmodernism and all other fashionable post-trends, Mason fearlessly confronts the only true post-, postcapitalism. While we can see all around us ominous signs of the impasses of global capitalism, it is perhaps more than ever difficult to imagine a feasible alternative to it. How are we to deal with this frustrating situation? Although Mason's book is irresistibly readable, this clarity should not deceive us: it is a book which compels us to think! -- Slavoj Zizek Author descriptionPaul Mason is the award-winning economics editor of Channel 4 News. His books include Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Global Revolutions ('Compact, urgent, present-tense, declarative and addictive' - Andy Beckett, Guardian); Live Working Die Fighting ('Indispensable, brilliant' - Ken Loach; longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award); and Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed ('Lucid and sharply polemical' - Oliver Kamm, The Times). |