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Liberal Capitalist Democracy
- The God that Failed
Engelsk Hardback
Liberal Capitalist Democracy
- The God that Failed
Engelsk Hardback

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A spectre is haunting Europe and America: the spectre of anti-democratic, right-wing nationalism. This has finally exposed as ill- based the astonishingly widely shared belief that unleashing capitalism will, sooner or later, lead societies to democratic politics. It’s nothing more than the big liberal myth. Krishnan Nayar explores the history of six major pioneers of modernity—Britain, America, France, Germany, Russia and Japan— from the seventeenth century’s Cromwellian revolution to Donald Trump’s election, via the Age of Darwinian Capitalism: the pre–Second World War, pre-consumerist, pre–welfare state capitalism of severe economic instability and a penurious working class. Nayar shows that, in this period, capitalist industrialisation was far more likely to lead to modernised right-wing autocracy than democracy, which got a chance thanks simply to fortunate circumstances in a few countries. Capitalism only underpinned democracy in the post-war period due to transient factors: the existence and character of the post-1945 Western welfare systems owed far more than is admitted by most historians to the challenge posed by the Russian and Chinese revolutions. The return of large-scale, extremist right-wing politics should not, therefore, come as a surprise. As autocratic China grows in strength, and Russia returns to expansionism, can democracy be rescued from a capitalism of dire instability and inequality?
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
496
ISBN-13:
9781787389496
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787389499
Udg. Dato:
2 feb 2023
Længde:
41mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
2 feb 2023
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