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Post-democracy: After the Crises by Colin Crouch
Timely warning about the dangers of neoliberalism as the only game in town
NEOLIBERAL INTERVENTIONIST: Cambridge Anaytica's CEO Alexander Nix
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
JOHN GREEN relishes the record of a life well lived in the service of the fight for justice and socialism
POST-DEMOCRACY is a follow-on from Colin Crouch’s previous book, published in 2003, about the threats to democracy that have been emerging in many advanced capitalist countries.
It argued that democratic structures were being hollowed out, with power increasingly concentrated in wealthy business elites, along with their political counterparts who were backing them. Neoliberalism was becoming the only game in town.
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