The Challenges of the New Social Democracy: Social Capital and Civic Association or Class Struggle?
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Raju J. Das, Aram Eisenschitz and Jamie Gough provide a Marxist critique of new social democracy as the dominant contemporary strategy for local economic and social development. In the global North and South, new social democracy seeks to develop social capital, strengthen civil society, build not-for-profit enterprises, encourage self-help, and foster community ties. It seeks participatory forms of local politics to achieve a local class consensus. It promises to improve people's economic and social conditions in the face of neoliberal capitalism, and to empower them. The authors argue that this strategy is severely limited, and inflected, by its capitalist environment. But they show that social capital and social enterprise can be developed in socialist ways, and contribute to a local politics based in class struggle.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:9004546871
ISBN13:9789004546875
Release Date:July 2023
Publisher:Brill
Length:232 Pages
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