Class Talk
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Class Talk

Communications Unbound

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Class Talk

Communications Unbound

About this book

A mini source-book on the roots and prevailing features of the contemporary capitalist political economy, Class Talk – Communications Unbound outlines the alternative of economically viable, politically robust and socio-culturally inclusive democratic socialism fit for the 21st Century and beyond. Tracing politico-economic and socio-cultural exploitative behaviours to historical antecedents of feudalism, slavery and colonialism, it defines the age of capitalism, examines the dismantling of the Post-Second World War politico-economic consensus, outlines shareholder control of the corporate, banking and communications systems and details the global privatisation of public services and the worldwide burgeoning of commercial rentierism.
The book makes visible the web of connections between matters of immense public concern: climate catastrophe and capitalist profiteering, foreign policy and terrorism, the housing crises and the global banking cartel, education systems and politico-economic divisiveness. It signposts the discussions, debates, solidarity and organisational activism in which the poor and working-class majority must engage if societies are to be built and maintained for the common good.

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Information

Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781789975901
eBook ISBN
9781789975918
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter 1: Power, Force and Social Class
  6. Chapter 2: Competitive Production, Exploitation and Profiteering
  7. Chapter 3: Usurious Banking and the Great Depression
  8. Chapter 4: WWI, Fascism, WWII, the Cold War
  9. Chapter 5: Post-WWII Western Economic Growth, Offshoring, Privatisation, Deregulation of Banking and Finance
  10. Chapter 6: Twenty-first-century Resource Wars
  11. Chapter 7: Bank Racketeering
  12. Chapter 8: Big Technology, Agri-business, Big Pharma, Medical Profiteering, Blockchain
  13. Chapter 9: Trading Blocs
  14. Chapter 10: Battles for Justice, Quest for Peace
  15. Chapter 11: Propaganda
  16. Chapter 12: The Socio-biological Nature of Language Acquisition
  17. Chapter 13: The Socio-cultural Nature of Literacy Development
  18. Chapter 14: Sociopathy of Defective Hypotheses
  19. Chapter 15: Politics of Ego and Entitlement
  20. Chapter 16: Housing in the UK
  21. Chapter 17: Grenfell
  22. Chapter 18: Charities and Foreign Aid
  23. Chapter 19: Educational Apartheid
  24. Chapter 20: English National Curriculum and Key Stage Testing
  25. Chapter 21: Pre-privatisation of State Schools
  26. Chapter 22: Parliamentary Monitoring of State Education
  27. Chapter 23: Educational Technology
  28. Chapter 24: Office for Standards in Education
  29. Chapter 25: Battle for Critical, Political and Multi-functional Literacy
  30. Chapter 26: Workplace Democracy
  31. Chapter 27: Democratisation of Mass Media
  32. Chapter 28: Education for Democratic Socialism
  33. Chapter 29: Into the Future
  34. Chapter 30: Signposts
  35. Chapter 31: Pandemic Politics
  36. Notes
  37. Bibliography
  38. Subject index