{"product_id":"sos-alternatives-to-capitalism-9781780263748","title":"SOS Alternatives to Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Swift\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: World Changing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: World Changing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A major contribution to changing the parameters of political debate. It helps move beyond the pseudo-alternatives of the political mainstream and begin to work for the kind of change we can believe in.\" --John P Clark, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, New Orleans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinancial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers' greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. People are crying out for an alternative but are continually told that one does not exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Swift examines the past shortcomings and present health of not one but many other paths to changing the world, including socialism, social democracy, anarchism, ecology, and degrowth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fully updated new edition he argues that our current centralized but beleaguered 'thin democracy' is vulnerable to corruption by big money and by crude populism and patriotism. A sane alternative is based on a democratically controlled commonwealth, and a 'thick democracy' populated with many nodes of popular power rooted in both the economy and civil society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining the practical with the visionary, he shows that finding alternatives to capitalism is no longer an academic issue for the left--it is an urgent planetary necessity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Swift\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and activist who works in print and radio. He was for more than two decades an editor of the New Internationalist magazine. He has written a number of books on themes as diverse as mosquitoes and street gangs. His current interests include forms of radical democracy and ecological degrowth alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Changing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999587582103,"sku":"9781780263748","price":852.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781780263748.webp?v=1783601128","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sos-alternatives-to-capitalism-9781780263748","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}