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Capitalism's World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium

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Have you ever questioned why millionaire journalists announce that we are living in the best of times, while you are working long hours just to stay out of debt? Have you ever wondered why politicians argue that in order to combat repressive governments in the world, the air force needs to go on bombing raids, which kill thousands of people, and destroy entire cities? If all this doesn't make much sense, I believe that Capitalism's World Disorder by Jack Barnes is the book for you.

Barnes points out that the cause of the problems we face is not that politicians and journalists are ill informed, or that they lack sensitivity. The cause of our problems is that we live in a capitalist system, which will always promote war, poverty, illiteracy, discrimination, and alienation. The efforts of the media and the government to rationalize this system, merely allow these problems to continue. If this were not bad enough, a complete economic breakdown is likely in our lifetimes, due to the fact that stock prices are grossly over-valued.

Barnes is no arm-chair pundit. He is a leader of the Socialist Workers Party, who's members work to bring about a government where human needs are more important than profits. Capitalism's World Disorder demonstrates that this kind of government is not just a dream, but a realistic alternative for the future, which is clearly more plausible than the absurd and nonsensical arguments we read in the press every day.

For those people who are involved in the struggle for affirmative action, workers on strike to defend their standard of living, marchers against the Confedeate battle flag, or against police brutality, this book will help explain why the bosses are compelled to attack our rights. This book is a Marxist appreciation of the crisis of capitalismm, why the bosses are forced to solve their problems on the back of the working class, and why socialist revolution is the only realistic answer to the problems of today. For this, Barnes explains a revolutionary working class party is necessary and can be built today out of the struggles taking place around the world.

The reviewer who calls himself "Jim Cannon's Ghost" says that "there are many outstanding and intelligent Marxist writers out there, but Barnes is not one of them." Interestingly he doesn't manage to name even one of these. And while calling it "the worst sort of pseudo-Marxist nonsense." he offers no specific criticisms. One has to wonder if he has even read the book.
This is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the world today; the trade wars, shooting wars, the ongoing economic crisis, and the continuing shift to the right of bourgeois politics.
Is "globalization" really the problem, or are we still in the same era described by Lenin in Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism? Can you fight against U.S. wars by claiming that "peace is patriotic"? Are the unions dead, or is there ongoing resistance?

As the capitalist world has begun to spiral into war, this book for workers and young fighters for social change becomes more important. Internet and stock market gurus may say otherwise, but this book points out that the so-called boom of the 1990s was based on the sacrifices of workers, not clever investment or new technology. Now we are faced with the ultimate sacrifice--an era of deepening war. This book explains how the disorder gives workers a chance to make history and save humanity. Those alarmed by the rise of right-wing hate movements must read the chapter on Patrick Buchanon's reactionary 'culture war.' If Amazon lists this as unavailable, try the booksfrompathfinder store by clicking on "new and used" at the top of this page.

Socialism Dead ?Or Capitalism Marching Us To WW III ?
As the market system slides into the New Depression and a catastrophic war--not against 'terrorism', but for markets , oil, Yankee domination--young and not-so-young fighters for a world fit for humans to live in NEED THIS BOOK.The author analyzes the roots of the present crisis, and relates the collective experience of a revolutionary party of industrial union workers --in the belly of the Imperial Beast ! -- preparing to help lead the resistance to come.

To those who think that the idea of replacing the system died with the mass movements of the 1960s, to workers who want to see a way out of the constant grinding down of our standard of living and conditions, to young people who want to understand a way forward to education, to people of the world who want to get up out of the poverty and oppression that we all face. THIS IS THE BOOK. This the book that tells us where we have come, even though it was written several years ago. This is the book that puts these things in perspective not of our job, our school, our neighborhood, but of the world, of history, of working people, farmers, youth. No one can really understand our time in history without reading this book written from the standpoint of working people. It is not the product of the author alone, but of the collective discussion and experience of fighting, thinking, struggling Marxist workers, farmers, youth, and intellectuals around the world.

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This is one of a few well-known authors who actually offers a solution to our current Capitalist system. There are many great scholars out there like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, but few write with such a passion and charisma as Jack Barnes. This is a MUST READ for any College student and professor of the genre. Anyone who wants to understand our capitalist system needs to get a hold of this book. If you have any intellectual curiosity buy this book. IT'S A MUST!