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In 2020 Noam Chomsky asserted that the time to panic about the existential threats posed by nuclear war, global warming, and the stifling of informed debate in supposedly open and democratic societies was upon us, and that it was the duty of concerned citizens to act accordingly. Hastened by the lingering aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the proxy war in Ukraine, the decline of US economic hegemony, and increasing hostility between the US and China, he concluded in early 2023 that unless the US could be persuaded to cooperate with its declared adversaries and capitalism could be overthrown or 'defanged', there was little hope for survival. The authors of this book argue that achieving these ends will depend greatly on effective individual and collective worldwide dissent.
The book analyses and exemplifies dissent in the main domains of institutionalised capitalist control and the manufacture of uninformed consent, namely: political economy; education; the media and IT; work and trade unions; the commons and communities; and culture. And thereby gives voice and hope to the downtrodden and marginalised, including indigenous peoples and those of the global south. It provides an uplifting counter to the otherwise seemingly overwhelming expression of uninformed consent, one that will inspire by example and be an antidote to the fear and defeatism instilled by capitalist intransigence, indoctrination, and control.
The book is addressed to students, scholars and researchers primarily, but its breadth of coverage, authenticity and plain writing style will appeal to activists, community organisers, and concerned citizens, both in industrialised countries and the global south.
Contents
Introduction -Peter Blunt, Cecilia Escobar, and Vlassis Missos Part 1: International Relations 1. Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War -David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky 2. The New Geopolitics -Jeffrey D. Sachs 3. Dealing with Despair about Global Catastrophe: Agents of Change or 'Sack of Potatoes'? -Peter Blunt 4. The West's Reckoning? -Michael Brenner 5. Is there, and Can there be, Method to Trump's Madness? Peter Blunt 6. Ukraine, Palestine, Latin America and the Caribbean: The US-China Rivalry and Dissent in a Multipolar World -Oliver Villar 7. The Aetiology of the 2011 Syrian Crisis: Why the Social Base of the Baath State Rebelled -Marwan Kabalan 8. A North American's Reflections on Post-WWII Governance in Germany -Victor Grossman Part 2: Imperialism, Accountability, and 'Development' 9. Gaza and the Zionist Settler Colonial Politics of Genocide -Yosefa Loshitzky 10. The United States and Accountability for Extra-Territorial Human Rights Violations -Gerald Gahima 11. Undersea Internet Cables and Satellite Communication Networks (SATCOM): The New 'Great Game' for the Imperialist Superstructure of the 21st Century -Oliver Villar 12. Deep-Sea Mining and Geopolitics in the Pacific -Pascale Hatcher and Peter Blunt 13. The Search for Climate Justice in Africa -Kola Ibrahim 14. The Market Panacea: The Co-option of Gender Equality Discourse as Part of Neoliberal Development -Selver B. Sahin and Stepan Verkhovets 15. False Realities: Media Opacity in the Age of the Customised Experience -Vangelis Chirmpilidis 16. Julian Assange and the US Imperium: Targeting the Information Insurgency -Binoy Kampmark Part 3: Work and Trade Unions 17. Against Managerialism -Ronald Purser 18. Precarious Labour: The Case of Filipina Domestic Migrant Workers -Susan Reyes Kurdli 19. Social Movements in Argentina: From One Crisis (2001) to Another (2023) -Mariano Féliz 20. Building and Sustaining Alliances as a Crucial Strategy for Platform Resistance and Unionisation: The Cases of efood and Wolt in Greece -Alexandros Minotakis Part 4: Culture 21. Popular Culture, Terror Capitalism, and Orientalism -Hizer Mir 22. Whatever it Takes - Australia's Ruthless Quest for Sovereignty in the Timor Sea -Kim McGrath 23. 'Where Are you Really From?': The Politics of 'Pink' in 'Down Under' Capitalism -Peter Blunt 24. Postcolonialism and Elite-Centric Ways of Explaining the Past -Borja Legarra Herrero 25. Explaining the Erasure of Gaza -Caroline Sandes Part 5: Education 26. Shaking the Superflux: Why Shakespeare Should be Compulsory Reading for Economists -Yanis Varoufakis 27. Notes on an Afrocentric Educational Alternative to Human Capital Theory in Africa -Aminu Mamman and Jianing Song 28. Academic Job Placement in Post-Communist Studies: Politics and Meritocracy -Ivan Katchanovski 29. Whom Does the State Serve? The Role of the State in Capitalism -Cecilia Escobar
