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  • DYING FOR CAPITALISM
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    DYING FOR CAPITALISM
    CHARLES DERBER / SUREN MOODLIAR
    This is an original, accessible book for scholars, students, activists, and the general public on the greatest crisis the world has faced. The authors challenge the widespread notion that a green and peaceful set of technological reforms in the current economic and political system – perhaps a “green capitalism” – can prevent disaster. Dying for Capitalism analyzes the “triangl...

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  • CHOMSKY FOR ACTIVISTS
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    CHOMSKY FOR ACTIVISTS
    NOAM CHOMSKY / CHARLES DERBER / SUREN MOODLIAR / PAUL SHANNON
    Those who regard him as a “doom and gloom” critic will find an unexpected Chomsky in these pages. Here the world-renowned author speaks for the first time in depth about his career in activism, and his views and tactics. Chomsky offers new and intimate details about his life-long experience as an activist, revealing him as a critic with deep convictions and many surprising insi...

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  • TURNOUT!
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    TURNOUT!
    CHARLES DERBER / SUREN MOODLIAR / MATT NELSON
    Turnout! offers strategies for "emergency elections," like the 2020 races, and addresses the nuts-and-bolts for civic groups and individuals to effectively turn out the vote. Indeed, few elections in recent history represent the kind of apocalyptic turning point for our planet and democracy as the present one. Turnout! is both a creative work of political vision combined with a...

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  • MOVING BEYOND FEAR
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    MOVING BEYOND FEAR
    CHARLES DERBER / YALE R. MAGRASS
    While security stories often point to real threats, the narratives of leaders are as much about legitimating the power of rulers and the political and economic system that brought them to power. Derber and Magrass offer a penetrating examination of this phenomenon across history and types of societies. Their analysis reveals the great irony about security stories: they historic...

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  • WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION
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    WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION
    CHARLES DERBER
    When the Women’s March gathered millions just one day after Trump’s inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump’s election, bringing authoritarianism and the specter of neo-fascism, and intensifying corporate capitalism’s growing crises of inequality and injustices. Yet now we see a new universalizing resistance among progres...

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  • MORALITY WARS
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    MORALITY WARS
    CHARLES DERBER / YALE R. MAGRASS
    Is patriotism a good thing in an empire? Did General Petraeus betray us or did Moveon? Does morality often serve immoral purposes? Morality Wars shows us how to understand the subtext of these questions and of all the debates about moral values and liberal versus conservative ideology. Derber and Magrass show that the moral problem today is not just lying but "immoral morality,...

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  • MARX'S GHOST
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    MARX'S GHOST
    CHARLES DERBER
    Renowned American sociologist Charles Derber imagines a surprise encounter with Karl Marx's ghost in London's Highgate cemetery, leading to a night-long conversation about the problems plaguing the world. The economic crisis, climate change, war, the future of capitalism and the 'Arab Spring' are all discussed. The ghost reconsiders his theories as he speaks eloquently about Am...

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  • SOCIOPATHIC SOCIETY
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    SOCIOPATHIC SOCIETY
    CHARLES DERBER
    Charles Derber introduces and vividly explains the idea of a sociopathic society and why the idea has become necessary to understand today s world.Sociopathic society is rooted in governments and economies, not psychiatry. The book offers a new sociology of societies organized around antisocial values, which ultimately lead to societal and planetary self-destruction. Most of th...

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  • DISINHERITED MAJORITY
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    DISINHERITED MAJORITY
    CHARLES DERBER
    Thomas Piketty's blockbuster 2014 book, Capital in the 21st Century, may prove to be a game-changer, one of those rare books such as Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, which helped spark a new feminist movement. The world-wide flood of commentary suggests Piketty's book has already opened a new conversation not only about inequality, but about class, capitalism and social justice...

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  • CAPITALISM: SHOULD YOU BUY IT?
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    CAPITALISM: SHOULD YOU BUY IT?
    CHARLES DERBER / YALE R. MAGRASS
    Before there was economics, there was political economy, an interdisciplinary adventure boldly and critically seeking to understand capitalism. Over time, the social sciences evolved into specific disciplines - economics, sociology, political science - that less often questioned capitalist perspectives and the state. Contrasting three traditions - neoclassicism, Keynesianism, a...

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  • HIDDEN POWER
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    HIDDEN POWER
    CHARLES DERBER
    Political parties and elections are increasingly political theatre, with real power hidden behind a smokescreen of propaganda, carefully manipulated cultural and religious wars, and voting rituals. But there is another kind of hidden power in America: the grassroots social movements working for progressive change. If the Democratic Party can ally with these movements, America c...

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  • GLORIOUS CAUSES
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    GLORIOUS CAUSES
    YALE R. MAGRASS / CHARLES DERBER
    Drawing on historical cases of the American South before and after the Civil War, Europe – especially Germany – between the world wars, and the United States in Vietnam and its aftermath, this book takes a historical approach to explain the problems of capitalism and democratic leadership in western democracies today. Capitalist democracies proclaim equality, material prosperit...

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  • SURPLUS AMERICAN
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    SURPLUS AMERICAN
    CHARLES DERBER / YALE R. MAGRASS
    The Surplus American considers a future where increasing numbers of Americans will be rendered jobless and redundant. Exploring the ongoing crisis of 'surplus people' today, authors Charles Derber and Yale Magrass show that the jobless are merely the tip of the iceberg. Drawing on the work of economists and highlighting new trends, the book identifies a number of primary groups...

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  • NEW FEMINIZED MAJORITY
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    NEW FEMINIZED MAJORITY
    KATHERINE ADAM / CHARLES DERBER
    Building beyond Lakoff's election-year best-seller, Don't Think of an Elephant, this new book shows how the values of American voters are dramatically shifting. With the arrival of the 2008 election year, a rising "feminized majority"-made up of both women and men-is emerging as the pivotal force in American politics. Emerging trends show these values are broadly progressive an...

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  • GREED TO GREEN
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    GREED TO GREEN
    CHARLES DERBER
    This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism. In conversational and passionate writing, Derber shows that climate change is capitalism's time bomb, certain to explode unle...

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