Contrary to the thinking of many contemporaries, both capitalism
and democracy will not last and are to be superceded one day by
post-capitalism and post-democracy. The short-lived triumph of
market capitalism and liberal democracy in the post-Cold War era
does not imply the coming end of systematic ideology, of structural
oppression, or of violent conflict at the rational endpoint of
history. Unfortunately, violence does not disappear but only takes
a different form of hegemony, as it has throughout history. The
difference is, each age has its own form to adjust to, so we
believe in ours, and those before us believed in theirs, just as
those after us will in theirs. In The Future of Capitalism and
Democracy, Peter Baofu evaluates how and why capitalism and
democracy have failed at the institutional, organizational,
structural, cultural, systemic, cosmological, and bio-psychological
levels in order to synthesize the often conflicting ideals of
freedom, equality, and fraternity (broadly defined to include all
dimensions of life), so much cherished by many minds since the
modern era. And this is so, even if democracy and capitalism have
different meanings in different cultures and societies. In the end,
Baofu shows that capitalism and democracy, hegemonic as they are in
the post-Cold War era, are just experiments in history and will not
last, just as feudalism and aristocracy before them could not.
General
| Imprint: |
University Press of America
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2003 |
| First published: |
December 2002 |
| Authors: |
Peter Baofu
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| Dimensions: |
218 x 138 x 43mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
682 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7618-2387-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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| LSN: |
0-7618-2387-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780761823872 |
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