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Stay Alive - Surviving Capitalism's Coming Hunger Games (Paperback)
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Stay Alive - Surviving Capitalism's Coming Hunger Games (Paperback)
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When The Hunger Games series began in 2008, many commentators
lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction. But The Hunger
Games was always more political. It's since become the defining
story for a generation that's grown up with economic crisis and
never ending war. An uber-rich ruling class gorge themselves in
their gleaming high-tech Capitol, while working people are left
behind to survive in exploited districts. Revolution is a forgotten
hope kept at bay by brutal policing, aching poverty, and rigid
class segregation. Suzanne Collins' dark vision has only become
more relevant as The Hunger Games generation are thrown into an
arena of increasingly brutal competition from which it seems like
there is no escape, amid the climate crisis, global pandemics,
rampant inequality, authoritarianism, media misinformation, and
violence and cruelty as TV spectacle. It's no wonder the story
continues to resonate. Stay Alive uses the story to shed light on
our own age of extreme inequalities and climate collapse, in which
elites use state power, compliant media, and violent spectacle to
pacify their populations. The elite endgame is leading us towards
our own version of Panem, an authoritarian state order we'll call
Capitolism. The world is catching fire. Elites have no intention of
burning with us. And yet there is hope, which Michael Harris finds
for his readers in revolution and radical solidarity, in the
anti-authoritarian, empathetic, cooperative politics of a
generation that has no choice but to rebel.
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