A World to Win: A Rough Guide to a Future without Global Capitalism - Softcover

Paul Feldman; Corinna Lotz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0952345412 ISBN 13: 9780952345411

Publisher: Lupus Books, 2004

Synopsis

A World to Win rejects the gloom and doom view of the future, and uniquely sets out viable economic and political alternatives. These include: reorganising the economy on a not-for-profit basis using existing skills and technology, with producer and consumer-led self-management and a thinking market; building a truly democratic state, with new social rights and a fairer legal and criminal justice system; tackling the ecological crisis by transforming the way we produce. A World to Win also challenges the ideas and philosophy of the status quo. It pours scorn on the received wisdom of sustainability. Paul Feldman and Corinna Lotz show how humanity faces the challenge of turning a new page in history because: parliamentary democracy and traditional party politics are increasingly meaningless as a result of capitalist globalisation; the alienation of people from what they do, from society and from each other is deeper than ever; the global economy is driven by debt and growing inequality and is unsustainable as a system of production; the impact of profit-driven production on the environment is now so immense that only a revolutionary change can save the planet.

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From the Inside Flap

David Peace, author of the acclaimed Red Riding Quartet and GB84 about the British miners' strike: It's over 150 years since Marx and Engels first threw down the gauntlet and declared there was 'a world to win'. In 2004, Paul Feldman and Corinna Lotz have taken up that challenge. This book is both an answer to apathy and a blueprint for change - change which draws its inspiration from the millions of people who marched against the war in Iraq, the millions who have had enough of war and terror, fear and lies, and who still believe in public health and education for all, in tolerance and equality. Who believe in and deserve change.

Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, Leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain: At a time when political parties and nation states have become sub-systems of profit-driven globalisation, the world's future appears full of gloom and doom. A World to Win is a breath of fresh air - forceful, logical and absorbing to read.

Steve Fleetwood, senior lecturer, the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, Lancaster University: There is a welcome addition to the growing literature prepared to argue that 'There Is An Alternative'. It suggests that the raw materials for a radical and humane alternative to capitalism are very often already to hand. The book pulls no punches and its hard-hitting style will no doubt invite criticism. But this is exactly why it was written and deserves to be read.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lupus Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0952345412
• ISBN 13: 9780952345411
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392