Liberal Capitalist Democracy: The God That Failed (Record no. 51983)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781787389496
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 321.8 NAY
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Personal name Nayar, Krishnan
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Title Liberal Capitalist Democracy: The God That Failed
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc Hurst & Company
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2023
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
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Extent 430
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Summary, etc A specter is haunting Europe and America: the specter of anti-democratic, right-wing nationalism. This has finally exposed as ill- based the astonishingly widely shared belief that unleashing capitalism will, sooner or later, lead societies to democratic politics. It's nothing more than the big liberal myth. Krishnan Nayar explores the history of six major pioneers of modernity--Britain, America, France, Germany, Russia and Japan-- from the seventeenth century's Cromwellian revolution to Donald Trump's election, via the Age of Darwinian Capitalism: the pre-Second World War, pre-consumerist, pre-welfare state capitalism of severe economic instability and a penurious working class. Nayar shows that, in this period, capitalist industrialization was far more likely to lead to modernized right-wing autocracy than democracy, which got a chance thanks simply to fortunate circumstances in a few countries. Capitalism only underpinned democracy in the post-war period due to transient factors: post-1945 Western welfare systems owed their existence and character almost entirely to the challenge posed by the Russian and Chinese revolutions. The return of large-scale, extremist right-wing politics should not, therefore, come as a surprise. As autocratic China grows in strength, and Russia returns to expansionism, can democracy be rescued from a capitalism of dire instability and inequality?
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Politics and Government
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Democracy
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