Derber Welcome to the Revolution

Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-23540-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 342 Seiten

When the Women’s March gathered millions just one day after Trump’s inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump’s election, bringing authoritarianism and the specter of neo-fascism, and intensifying corporate capitalism’s growing crises of inequality and injustices. Yet now we see a new universalizing resistance among progressive and left movements for truth, dignity, and a world based on democracy, equality, and sustainability.

Derber offers the first comprehensive guide to this new era and an original vision and strategy for movement success. He convincingly shows how only a new universalizing wave, a progressive and revolutionary "movement of movements," can counter the world-universalizing economic and cultural forces of intensifying corporate and far-right power.

Derber explores the crises and eroding legitimacy of the globalized capitalist system and the right wing movements that helped create the Trump era. He shows how left universalizing movements can--and must—converge to propel a mass base that can prevent societal, economic, or ecological collapse, stop a resurgent Right, and build a democratic social alternative. He describes tactics and strategies for thisnew progressive movement. Brief guest "interludes" by Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Bill Fletcher, Juliet Schor, Gar Alperovitz, Chuck Collins, Matt Nelson, Janet Wallace, and other prominent figures tell how to coalesce and universalize activism into a more powerful movement wave—at local, community, national, and international levels.

Vivid and highly accessible, this book is for activists, students, and all citizens concerned about the erosion of justice and democracy. It thoroughly illuminates the rationale, theory, practice, humanism, love, and joy of the social transformation that we urgently need.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Derber, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

A PERSONAL PRELUDE:

INTRODUCTION: A CALL TO ACTION

PART I UP AGAINST THE WALL: THE UNIVERSALIZING CORPORATE SYSTEM AND THE APOCALPYSE

Chapter 1 THE SYSTEM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: THE MILITARIZED MATRIX VS US

Chapter 2 THE PAC-MAN SYSTEM: HOW IT IS UNIVERALIZING AND THREATENING EXTINCTION

Part II UNIVERSALIZING RESISTANCE

Chapter 3 IRRESISTIBLE RESISTANCE: THE GRASS ROOTS AND THE WAVES OF CHANGE

Chapter 4 MOVEMENT GPS: TEN RULES OF THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE

Chapter 5 FIGHT THE POWER, A.K.A THE SYSTEM: CHOOSE DEMOCRACY OVER AUTHORITARIANISM

Chapter 6 WIN THE MAJORITY: IT’S EASIER THAN YOU THINK

Chapter 7 Converge! GET OUT OF YOUR SILO

Chapter 8 DEMOCRATIZE THE WORLD: GLOBALIZE AND LOCALIZE

Chapter 9 PACHAMAMA: PROTECT MOTHER EARTH

Chapter 10 DON’T JUST SAY NO: SAY YES TO ALTERNATIVES

Chapter 11 CREATE MEDIA OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE: MOVEMENTS BEYOND PROPOGANDA

Chapter 12 LET’S GET POLITICAL: MOVEMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 13 THINK, Learn and teach: EDUCATION AS ACTIVISM

Chapter 14 CHOOSE LIFE AND LOVE: THE CULTURE OF ACTIVISM

PART III FROM VISION TO PRACTICE

Chapter 15 GRAND STRATEGY: ANSWERING THE BIG QUESTIONS

Chapter 16 WALKING THE TALK: NUTS AND BOLTS

Über Autor(innen)

A life-long activist and public speaker, Charles Derber is the author of 20 books and is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He writes for and has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Time, Newsweek, Newsday, Truthout, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has made hundreds of radio and television appearances. His books are translated into Chinese, Korean, Tamil, German and Polish- and he is a bestselling author in South Korea; he has done extended book tours in German bookstores and blues coffee houses, and has lectured often in Italy. Derber is a public intellectual - shortlisted in 2006 for best book in current affairs - who believes that serious ideas should be written in an accessible and entertaining style. His most recent books include Bully Nation; Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States; and The Disinherited Majority: Capital Questions - Piketty and Beyond.