Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa

by Jason Hickel

Book Overview

The revolution that brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power in South Africa was fractured by internal conflict. Migrant workers from rural Zululand rejected many of the egalitarian values and policies fundamental to the ANC's liberal democratic platform and organized themselves in an attempt to sabotage the movement. This anti-democracy stance, which persists today as a direct critique of "freedom" in neoliberal South Africa, hinges on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520284232
• ISBN13: 9780520284234
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"