Bonfire
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Bonfire

American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the Quest for Democracy

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eBook - ePub

Bonfire

American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the Quest for Democracy

About this book

Charles Derber shows how the US is moving toward sociocide – the erosion of durable, positive social relations in the economy, family, politics, and civil society essential to sustaining society itself – while offering pragmatic solutions.

Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the Quest for Democracy examines how new technologies and financial strategies are part of broader economic, environment, cultural, and political shifts that create tipping points generating more competition, distrust, isolation, and violence. In doing so, Derber spells out the implications for democracy and social cohesion. Importantly, he explores options that could stop the spiral and reconstruct a sustainable and equitable community, civil society, and democracy via emerging movements against neoliberalism capitalism, climate change, war – and in favor of labor solidarity, human rights, and community.

This book will be of interest to students, scholars and activists with an interest in political sociology, political economy, and social movements in the US.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half-Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Introduction: The great societal bonfire
  10. 1 The bonfire of social relations and democracy: The self-destructing society, tipping points of social disconnection, and the path to sociocide and policide
  11. 2 The bonfire of the new Robber Barons: Melting down productive relations and dissolving the workplace
  12. 3 The bonfire of the tech revolution: AI and social media, surveillance capitalism, and the sociocide of Silicon Valley
  13. 4 The bonfire of the vanities: The over-heated American Dream, me over we, and the culture of social media and the lonely
  14. 5 The bonfire of environmental devastation: Climate change, COVID-19, and the sociocidal shock doctrine
  15. 6 The bonfire of the armed society: Packing heat, militarized America, and the new war system at home
  16. 7 The bonfire of American fascists: Racial and class policide, the anti-Democratic Party, and ballots to bullets in the Trump era
  17. 8 Beyond the bonfire: Historic lessons, sociophiliac movements, and creating deep democracy and community
  18. Index