The Challenges of the New Social Democracy: Social Capital and Civic Association or Class Struggle? - Couverture souple

Das, Raju J.; Eisenschitz, Aram; Gough, Jamie

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888902448

Editeur : Haymarket Books, 2024

Synopsis

In this important study, Raju J Das, Jamie Gough and Aram Eisenschitz provide a Marxist critique of new social democracy as the dominant contemporary strategy for local economic and social development.

In both the global North and South, new social democracy seeks to develop social capital, strengthen civil society, build not-for-profit enterprises, encourage self-help, and foster community ties. It seeks participatory forms of local politics to achieve a local class consensus. It promises to improve people's economic and social conditions in the face of neoliberal capitalism, and to empower them. The authors argue that this strategy is severely limited by, and internalizes, its capitalist environment. They show that social enterprise can be developed in socialist ways, and contribute to a local politics based in class struggle. But social capital cannot replace the struggle of the exploited and oppressed against capitalism and for a socialist society, a strategy which the authors outline for the local scale.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Raju J. Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class relations, the state, uneven development, poverty, and politics of the Right and the Left. His most recent book is The Challenges of the New Social Democracy (Brill, 2023).

Aram Eisenschitz teaches at the Business School, Middlesex University, UK. His research interests include spatial political economy, urban planning and tourism. He and Jamie Gough are the authors of The Politics of Local Economic Policy and Spaces of Social Exclusion.

Jamie Gough taught at Sheffield University. His research interests include spatial political economy, local and national societies, theories of economic crisis, dynamics of the labour process, social reproduction, and poverty. He is author of Work, Locality and the Rhythms of Capital.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Haymarket Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888902448
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226
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