Nayar Krishnan
Nayar Krishnan - Liberal Capitalist Democracy The God That Failed - Hardcover
Nayar Krishnan - Liberal Capitalist Democracy The God That Failed - Hardcover
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Description: A spectre is haunting Europe and America: the spectre 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 industrialisation was far more likely to lead to modernised 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: the existence and character of the post - 1945 Western welfare systems owed far more than is admitted by most historians 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?
Title: Liberal Capitalist Democracy The God That Failed
Author(s): Nayar Krishnan
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787389496
Pages: 496 Pages
Publication Date: 4/15/2023
Category: Political Structures: Democracy
Description: A spectre is haunting Europe and America: the spectre 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 industrialisation was far more likely to lead to modernised 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: the existence and character of the post - 1945 Western welfare systems owed far more than is admitted by most historians 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?
Title: Liberal Capitalist Democracy The God That Failed
Author(s): Nayar Krishnan
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787389496
Pages: 496 Pages
Publication Date: 4/15/2023
Category: Political Structures: Democracy
