TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duncan, Jane
AU  - Gordon, Linda
AU  - Kaaf, Gunnett
AU  - McKinley, Dale
AU  - Nilsen, Alf Gunvald
AU  - Pillay, Devan
AU  - Radebe, Mandla J.
AU  - Saad-Filho, Alfredo
AU  - Satgar, Vishwas
AU  - Solty, Ingar
AU  - Williams, Michelle
ED  - Williams, Michelle
ED  - Satgar, Vishwas
AB  - Destroying Democracy, volume six of the Democratic Marxism series, focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, rising authoritarianism is expressing itself in divisive and exclusionary politics, populist political parties and movements, increased distrust in fact-based information and news, and the withering accountability of state institutions. Over the last four decades, democracy has radically shifted to a market democracy in which all aspects of human, non-human and planetary life are commodified and corporations have become more powerful than states and their citizens. This is how neoliberal capitalism functions at a systemic level and if left unchecked is the greatest threat to democracy and a sustainable planet. The authors home in on four country cases – India, Brazil, South Africa and the United States of America to interrogate issues of politics, ecology, state security, media, access to information and political parties, and affirm the need to reclaim and re-build an expansive and inclusive democracy. The book is an invaluable resource for all who are interested in understanding the threats to democracy and the rising tide of authoritarianism in the global south and the global north.
DO  - 10.18772/22021086994
KW  - neoliberal capitalism; democratic capitalism; neoliberalism; authoritarianism; eco-fascism; democracy; populism; fascism; nationalism; far-right; fossil fuels; climate change; media freedoms and surveillance; USA; India; Brazil; South Africa
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/90afc7ae-643e-4aa7-958a-72e39dacb465/9781776147045_WEB.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50256
PB  - Wits University Press
PP  - Johannesburg
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9781776146994
SN  - 9781776146994
SN  - 9781776147014
SN  - 9781776147021
TI  - Destroying Democracy : Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics
ER  - 
