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Dying for Capitalism

How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It

Charles Derber Suren Moodliar

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English
Routledge
24 July 2023
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 “triangle of extinction” that links capitalism, environmental destruction, and militarism as a system that cannot sustain life on the planet. The authors analyze how the extinction triangle evolved historically, how it functions globally as integral to the world capitalist order, and how the United States has become the dominant “extinction nation.” They also show how recent anti-democratic and anti-scientific cultural and political forces intensify denial of the threat and subordinate health and survival to profit and extreme concentrated power.

The book offers a “slender path” of social and political transformation that can prevent catastrophe. The path requires moving beyond current ruling systems. But possibilities of survival arise from action at local, state, regional, and global levels through multiple strategies and movements that already exist. The authors draw on the history of abolitionism and emancipation from slavery in the United States to show how a system that appears unchangeable can be transformed, while describing organizations, movements, and practices that are models of hope and a shift from the triangle of extinction to the “circle of creation.”

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   639g
ISBN:   9781032512792
ISBN 10:   1032512792
Series:   Universalizing Resistance
Pages:   248
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction - The Greatest Emergency of All Time PART I - The Hidden System of Extinction 1 The Extinction Triangle: Capitalism, Environmental Destruction and Militarism 2 Is Capitalism Too Hot? Corporate Capital, Power, and Climate Change 3 Plague for Profit: Capitalism and Pandemic 4 Bloody Money: Capitalism, War, and the Doomsday Machine PART II - The US and Extinction 5 America’s “Extinction Exceptionalism” 6 Molecules of Freedom? America’s Climate of Exceptionalism 7 Inconvenient Truths: Systemic Roots of US COVID-19 Failure 8 America the Not-So-Beautiful: The US Doomsday Machine PART III – The Slender Path to Survival 9 Lessons & Inspiration from the Abolitionists 10 Front for Survival: Movements, the State, & Public Goods

Charles Derber is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College and a noted public intellectual who has written 25 books, including several best-sellers reviewed in the NY Times, Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and other leading media. His books include Welcome to the Revolution, Sociopathic Society, Corporation Nation, People Before Profit, The Pursuit of Attention, The Wilding of America, and Greed to Green. With Suren Moodliar, he is a co-editor of the Routledge book series Universalizing Resistance. Derber, a life-long activist, has done hundreds of radio, television, internet, and film interviews by prominent media and commentators. Suren Moodliar is a scholar and activist who helped found and manage encuentro5, a movement-building center in Boston. He is also managing editor of the journal, Socialism and Democracy. He is co-author of A People’s Guide to Greater Boston (2020). He also co-edited and contributed to Turnout! Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency (2020) with Charles Derber and Matt Nelson, and to Internationalism or Extinction (2020) and Chomsky for Activists (2021) with Charles Derber and Paul Shannon. In the 1980s, Suren supported the national liberation movement in his home country, South Africa. He has also participated in public health, peace, solidarity, and pro-immigrant movements and labor organizations.

Reviews for Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It

One might not think that a book about Dying for Capitalism would be easy to read and exciting to absorb, but this one is. Derber and Moodliar present a solid analysis about how runaway capitalism, climate change and militarism (with its threat of nuclear war) create the perfect storm that threatens human survival, and present it in digestible and elegant prose with many ah-ha moments along the way. Best of all, they wrap it in an urgent call for a 21st century movement to abolish carbon emissions and nuclear weapons, taking inspiration from the movement to abolish slavery. They make the impossible seem not only possible, but essential for continued life on this planet. Read it and jump into the movement waters that will nourish your soul and might just save the planet. Medea Benjamin Cofounder of Code Pink and Global Exchange, author of War in Ukraine, winner of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Peace prizes An eloquent call for abolition of fossil fuels, very soon. Dying for Capitalism is carefully reasoned and informed, spelling out what we can and must do, without delay. Noam Chomsky University of Arizona, Emeritus Professor, MIT This must read cogent book dissects the interconnected systemic crisis bringing us to the brink of extinction. Dying for Capitalism illuminates the threads of the poly-crisis driven by extractive capitalism, ecological destruction, and entrenched militarism. Read it and weep -and then roll up your sleeves and engage. Chuck CollinsCo-editor, Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies; author of Altar to an Erupting Sun


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