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    The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System

    By Jerry Mander

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    An environmentalist and intellectual gadfly foretells the imminent failure of the capitalist experiment.
     
    In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problems of capitalism.
     
    Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system: “What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010.” Capitalism, utterly dependent on never-ending economic growth, is an impossible absurdity on a finite planet with limited resources. Climate change, together with global food, water, and resource shortages, is only the start.
     
    Mander draws attention to capitalism’s obsessive need to dominate and undermine democracy, as well as to diminish social and economic equity. Designed to operate free of morality, the system promotes permanent war as a key economic strategy. Worst of all, the problems of capitalism are intrinsic to the form. Many organizations are already anticipating the breakdown of the system and are working to define new hierarchies of democratic values that respect the carrying capacities of the planet.
     
    “A cogent rally cry and eloquent assessment of America’s—and the world’s—current predicament, dismal prospects, and hope for a way out.” —Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 1, 2013
    ISBN9781619022188
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    The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System
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    Jerry Mander

    Jerry Mander holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Economics, spent 15 years in the advertising business, including five as president and partner of Freeman, Mander & Gossage, San Francisco, one of the most celebrated agencies in the country. After quitting commercial advertising, he achieved national fame for his public service campaigns, leading the Wall Street Journal to call him "the Ralph Nader of adevertising." In 1972 he founded the country's first non-profit ad agency, taking leave of that in 1974. Mander is co-author of The Great International Paper Airplane Book.

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      I had read Manders Absence of the Sacred and Four Arguments for the Elimination of TV (a couple of times) so I got a little excited when I saw he wrote another one. For me, he didn't dissapoint. It's a clear-eyed look at the flaws of capitalism that are evident today with climate change, inequality, and our political system; all working in favor of the large scale corporate world or 'global economy'.Remember when your neighbor owned the grocery store, the hardware, gas station, etc,? One of your parents was a stay at home parent because one income could raise a family? Those days are gone and now a select few reap the benefits of our public commons. Why? Who elected these select few to benefit so greatly? Why do so few control our airwaves? Who elected them? Why do we have the choice between candidates who neither seem to benefit anyone but the corporate industry that funds them now? We have quietly moved from a democracy to a plutocracy, and getting dangerously close to fascist state as more and more of our choices are fashioned by corporate money. Mander does provide some ideas on solutions (local sustainability, etc.) but the reality is it will take radical change (one would be to shut off the noise machines) to reverse our course.