Capitalism's World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium

by Jack Barnes

The social devastation and financial panic, coarsening of politics, cop brutality, and imperialist aggressionall are products not of something gone wrong with capitalism but of its lawful workings.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873488180
• ISBN13: 9780873488181
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Pathfinder
• Length: 549 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Capitalism Marching Us Toward Depression And World War

Socialism Dead ?Or Capitalism Marching Us To WW III ?As the market system slides into the New Depression and a catastrophic war--not against 'terrorism', but for markets , oil, Yankee domination--young and not-so-young fighters for a world fit for humans to live in NEED THIS BOOK.The author analyzes the roots of the present crisis, and relates the collective experience of a revolutionary party of industrial union workers --in the belly of the Imperial Beast ! -- preparing to help lead the resistance to come.

Must reading for fighters

For those people who are involved in the struggle for affirmative action, workers on strike to defend their standard of living, marchers against the Confedeate battle flag, or against police brutality, this book will help explain why the bosses are compelled to attack our rights. This book is a Marxist appreciation of the crisis of capitalismm, why the bosses are forced to solve their problems on the back of the working class, and why socialist revolution is the only realistic answer to the problems of today. For this, Barnes explains a revolutionary working class party is necessary and can be built today out of the struggles taking place around the world.

The most important book on current events today

Have you ever questioned why millionaire journalists announce that we are living in the best of times, while you are working long hours just to stay out of debt? Have you ever wondered why politicians argue that in order to combat repressive governments in the world, the air force needs to go on bombing raids, which kill thousands of people, and destroy entire cities? If all this doesn't make much sense, I believe that Capitalism's World Disorder by Jack Barnes is the book for you.Barnes points out that the cause of the problems we face is not that politicians and journalists are ill informed, or that they lack sensitivity. The cause of our problems is that we live in a capitalist system, which will always promote war, poverty, illiteracy, discrimination, and alienation. The efforts of the media and the government to rationalize this system, merely allow these problems to continue. If this were not bad enough, a complete economic breakdown is likely in our lifetimes, due to the fact that stock prices are grossly over-valued.Barnes is no arm-chair pundit. He is a leader of the Socialist Workers Party, who's members work to bring about a government where human needs are more important than profits. Capitalism's World Disorder demonstrates that this kind of government is not just a dream, but a realistic alternative for the future, which is clearly more plausible than the absurd and nonsensical arguments we read in the press every day.