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Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy

An American Crisis

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  1. Dale L. Johnson

    1. Independent Scholar , Barva de Heredia, Costa Rica

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  • Brings together a wide range of ideas and evidence in a full structural and cultural analysis of contemporary America in crisis
  • Takes aim at many contemporary assumptions within and about leftist politics in a polemical, argumentative style
  • Offers a new contribution from a leading political economist and theorist with decades of global experience

Part of the book series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice (CPTRP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 1-6

  3. Money and the World It Creates

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 7-21

  4. The Political Economy of Financialization and Its Consequences

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 23-39

  5. Degenerative Development and Class Transformation

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 41-58

  6. Ideology as the Root of Plutocratic Rule

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 59-78

  7. The Ruling Class Rules by Subordinating Government to the Sway of Money

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 79-89

  8. Rule by Divide and Conquer

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 91-108

  9. The Ultimate Means of the Rule of Capital: Repression, Terror, and War

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 109-142

  10. The Globalization of Capital and Its Ideologically Framed Policies

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 143-192

  11. A Summary of Strategic Considerations

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 193-215

  12. Confronting What Is to Achieve Counter-Hegemony

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 217-239

  13. Some Tactical Considerations

    • Dale L. Johnson
    Pages 241-256

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 257-274
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About this book

This book aims to further an understanding of present day America by exploring counter-hegemony to the rule of capital and offering guidelines for strategizing change proceeding from the dialectic of What Is and What Ought to Be. The author analyzes neoliberal global order and its political expressions through discussions of the dominance of finance capital in the late twentieth century, the triumph of ideology, the closing of avenues to reform, the problem of the captive state, and a sociological analysis of rule by “divide and conquer.” The book concludes with a look at the history of movement politics in culture, arts, economics, and politics. It resounds with a hope that challenges to hegemony can use many paths to change, of which the electoral path is but one of many fronts, in the long-term struggle for radical reform.

Reviews

“This is a book from the 1960s in the sense that the author explicitly reclaims that period in the United States as one of revolt and subversion of accepted knowledge. … The book will be useful to students in the United States looking to get a basic radical education on the workings of the system. It is very readable and accessible so it should definitely be read by students and activists.” (Ronaldo Munck, Capital & Class, Vol. 42 (1), February, 2018)

“Dale Johnson has provided us with what amounts to a textbook on contemporary international capitalism and how to fight it. The book represents a lifetime of engaged scholarship, and given its macro-level approach, makes a unique contribution to our understanding of world events.” (Martin Oppenheimer, New Politics, newpol.org, October, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Independent Scholar , Barva de Heredia, Costa Rica

    Dale L. Johnson

About the author

Dale L. Johnson is a retired sociologist living in Costa Rica and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Rutgers University, USA. This book was inspired by his view of the deteriorating situation in the United States and his roots as a 1960s student activist and young critical sociologist. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles in journals.

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