Renowned American sociologist Charles Derber imagines a surprise encounter with Karl Marx's ghost in London's Highgate cemetery, leading to a night-long conversation about the problems plaguing the world.
Shows us how to understand the subtext of debates about moral values and liberal versus conservative ideology.
The Surplus American considers a future where increasing numbers of Americans will be rendered jobless and redundant
A bold and hopeful book that exposes global warning as a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism and suggests radical and achievable change.
Thomas Piketty's blockbuster 2014 book, Capital in the 21st Century, may prove to be a game-changer, one of those rare books such as Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, which helped spark a new feminist movement
Charles Derber introduces and vividly explains the idea of a sociopathic society and why the idea has become necessary to understand today s world
Before there was economics, there was political economy, an interdisciplinary adventure boldly and critically seeking to understand capitalism
Security stories often point to real threats, but the narratives of leaders are as much about legitimating their power... Læs mere
Dying for Capitalism analyzes the "triangle of extinction" that links capitalism, environmental destruction, and militarism as a system that cannot sustain life on the planet.
This book uniquely reverses today’s MAGA conspiratorial concept of the deep state to reveal how a very real “deeper state” is evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy.
In this book, Charles Derber shows how the US is moving toward sociocide—the erosion of durable, positive social relations in the economy, family, politics and civil society essential to sustaining society itself—while offering a combination of pragmatic solutions.