Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781583674789)

In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly democratic and sustainable society. It threatens to become self-fulfilling. In this trailblazing new book, award-winning author Robert W. McChesney argues that the weight of the present is blinding people to the changing nature and the tremendous possibilities of the historical moment we inhabit. In Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century, he uses a sophisticated political economic analysis to delineate the recent trajectory of capitalism and its ongoing degeneration. In exciting new research McChesney reveals how notions of democratic media are becoming central to activists around the world seeking to establish post-capitalist democracies. Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century also takes a fresh look at recent progressive political campaigns in the United States. While conveying complex ideas in a lively and accessible manner, McChesney demonstrates a very different and far superior world is not only necessary, but possible.

Author: Robert W. McChesney
ISBN-10: 1583674780
ISBN-13: 9781583674789
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.21w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2014
Choice 05/01/2015 pg. 1555