Anti-Capitalism Reader

[Chuck Munson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> <http://www.akashicbooks.com/acr.html>
> 
> The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Anti-Market Politics in Theory and
> Practice, Past, Present and Future
> edited by Joel Schalit
> 
> Nonfiction/Paperback
> 325 pages
> $16.95
> ISBN 1-888451-33-5
> Forthcoming September 2002
> 
> The collapse of Enron and WorldCom and the increasing evidence of
> corruption at the highest levels of corporate life has opened the
> door to a remarkable whirlwind of dialogue about the prevailing
> economic ideology of the post-Cold War era. While traditionally the
> province of the left, concerns about the legitimacy of market-driven
> societies are now being voiced by centrists and conservatives, who
> fear that their livelihoods and their investments are suddenly at the
> mercy of forces spinning out of control.
> 
> Enter The Anti-Capitalism Reader, a refreshingly non-doctrinaire
> anthology of writings and interviews covering much of the
> intellectual geography of the new anti-market left that has become
> increasingly visible since anti-capitalist protests rocked the World
> Trade Organization's 1999 meeting in Seattle.
> 
> Featuring essays by Doug Henwood, Naomi Klein, Ali Abunimah, Annalee
> Newitz, Paul Thomas, Ultra red, and the Bad Subjects collective --
> and interviews with Slavoj Zizek, Toni Negri, Thomas Frank, and Wendy
> Brown -- The Anti-Capitalism Reader moves from culture to politics,
> gender, and alternative economic systems. Each contributor presents
> acessible, hard-hitting (and sometimes humorous) critical insights
> that make this volume an ideal partner in contemporary discourse
> about globalization, war, and economic decline.
> 
> Editor Joel Schalit is the author of Jerusalem Calling and editor of
> both Punk Planet magazine and webzine Bad Subjects: Political
> Education for Everyday Life. He is a regular contributor to the SF
> Bay Guardian.

No offense, Doug, but this a pretty mainstream selection of
anti-globalization writers.

Is this going to be another boring academic tome? How about some writings
from radical anti-capitalists who also do activism?

I'm so frustrated with the sorry state of books on the anti-globalization
movement that I'm thinking about writing one myself.

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