Overview
Capitalism is killing the planet and its people and yet we are told there is no alternative. This book shows that multiple possibilities do exist, and always have done. Swift dissects history and cuts through resistant thinking with brilliant ideas. He advocates less ideology and more practical transformation based on democratic self-governance, degrowth, social wages and control of financial markets.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Swift
Publisher: New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Imprint: New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.256kg
ISBN: 9781780263748
ISBN 10: 1780263740
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 10 November 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'It is exhilarating to read of the multiple possibilities that already exist and can serve as an energizing inspiration to action. Eloquent and inspirational.' Jeremy Seabrook, Red Pepper; 'Grounded in an impressive base in the literature of alternatives to capitalism and in a wide knowledge of many social movements around the world.' Ecosocialists.org; 'Richard Swift’s SOS Alternatives to Capitalism makes a major contribution to changing the parameters of political debate. It helps us move beyond the pseudo-alternatives of the political mainstream and begin to work for the kind of change we can believe in without being delusional.' John P Clark, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, New Orleans, and author of The Impossible Community.
'It is exhilarating to read of the multiple possibilities that already exist and can serve as an energizing inspiration to action. Eloquent and inspirational.' Jeremy Seabrook, Red Pepper; 'Grounded in an impressive base in the literature of alternatives to capitalism and in a wide knowledge of many social movements around the world.' Ecosocialists.org; 'Richard Swift's SOS Alternatives to Capitalism makes a major contribution to changing the parameters of political debate. It helps us move beyond the pseudo-alternatives of the political mainstream and begin to work for the kind of change we can believe in without being delusional.' John P Clark, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, New Orleans, and author of The Impossible Community.
Author Information
Richard Swift is a journalist/activist who works in print and radio. He was for more than two decades an editor of the New Internationalist magazine. He has written a number of books on themes as diverse as mosquitoes and street gangs. His current interests include forms of radical democracy and ecological degrowth alternatives. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
