Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
Author(s): Adrian Pabst
Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment. Adrian Pabst argues that now is the time for an alternative – postliberalism – that is centred around trust, dignity, and human relationships. Instead of reverting to the destabilising inhumanity of 'just-in-time' free-market globalisation, we could build a politics upon the sense of localism and community spirit, the valuing of family, place and belonging, which was a real theme of lockdown. We are not obliged to put up with the restoration of a broken status quo that erodes trust, undermines institutions and trashes our precious natural environment. We could build a pluralist democracy, decentralise the state, and promote embedded, mutualist markets. This bold book shows that only a politics which fuses economic justice with social solidarity and ecological balance can overcome our deep divisions and save us from authoritarian backlash.?
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- : Polity Press
- : Polity Press
- : 0.317515
- : 01 June 2021
- : 2.03 Centimeters X 13.72 Centimeters X 21.34 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Adrian Pabst
- : Paperback
- : 2110
- : English
- : 320.513
- : 160