Download or read book Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy written by Jerry Harris and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging book makes a critical contribution to understanding the times in which we live and possible solutions to the increasingly acute crisis of global capitalism. Harris critiques with great perspicacity the ideology and destructive practices of hegemonic neo-liberalism as well as the failure of 20th century socialism to provide a viable alternative and the limitations of anarchism. All three ideologies are found wanting in the quest for human liberation. In this new globalized information age our emancipatory potential, he suggests, lies in freeing democracy from the constraints of capitalism through a more balanced relationship between the state, market and civil society.