Destroying Democracy, volume six of the Democratic Marxism series, focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, rising authoritarianism is expressing itself in divisive and exclusionary politics, populist political parties and movements, increased distrust in fact-based information and news, and the withering accountability of state institutions. Over the last four decades, democracy has radically shifted to a market democracy in which all aspects of human, non-human and planetary life are commodified and corporations have become more powerful than states and their citizens. This is how neoliberal capitalism functions at a systemic level and if left unchecked, is the greatest threat to democracy and a sustainable planet. The authors home in on four country cases – India, Brazil, South Africa and the United States of America to interrogate issues of politics, ecology, state security, media, access to information and political parties, and affirm the need to reclaim and re-build an expansive and inclusive democracy. The book is an invaluable resource for all who are interested in understanding the threats to democracy and the rising tide of authoritarianism in the global south and the global north.
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Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface: Neoliberal Capitalism in the Time of Covid-19: Destroying Democracy and Rising Authoritarianism – Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar Part I: Neoliberal Capitalism’s Destruction of Democracy Chapter 1 The Crisis of Democracy: Neoliberal Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Reclaiming Democracy – Michelle Williams Chapter 2 The Rise of Eco-Fascism – Vishwas Satgar Part II: Neoliberal Capitalism Against Democracy Globally Chapter 3 Populism and Fascism: Lessons from the 1920s Ku Klux Klan – Linda Gordon Chapter 4 What Do ‘Unruly’ Right-Wing Authoritarian Nationalists Do When They Rule? The United States under Donald Trump – Ingar Solty Chapter 5 Brazilian Democracy Facing Authoritarian Neoliberalism – Alfredo Saad Filho Chapter 6 India’s Trajectories of Change, 2004-2019 – Alf Gunvald Nilsen Part III: Neoliberal Capitalism Against Democracy in South Africa Chapter 7 The Dialectic of Democracy: Capitalism, Populism and Working-Class Politics – Devan Pillay Chapter 8 Democracy and the Right to Know in South Africa’s Capitalist Transition – Dale T Mc Kinley Chapter 9 South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Media and Democracy – Mandla J Radebe Chapter 10 Securitising Protests as Domestic Instability in South Africa – Jane Duncan Chapter 11 Prospects for a Left Renewal in South Africa – Gunnett Kaaf Conclusion – Vishwas Satgar Contributors Index
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Ingar Solty is a senior research fellow in Foreign, Peace and Security Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin.
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