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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Capitalism is no mere mechanism, but an ideology often reinforced by crises.
Chapter 3: Capitalism wrongly claims society’s freedoms while pinning systemic failures on individual people alone.
Chapter 4: Capitalism has moved into a new phase easily mistaken for egalitarianism today.
Chapter 5: Capitalism’s hidden ideology shifts attention away from our real, primary adversaries today.
Chapter 6: Ideology hides within the new ways we shop, consume, and purchase today.
Chapter 7: Reimagining the communist idea is the sole genuine cure for capitalist ideology now globally.
Chapter 8: Our world faces four major antagonisms; three involve culture, the environment, and humanity itself.
Chapter 9: The clash between the Included and Excluded sits at the core of communism’s necessity in society.
Chapter 10: Forces that appear anti-capitalist will still not produce a truly egalitarian society anywhere.
Description
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (2008) sets out to uncover the hidden ideology that surrounds us in our everyday lives. In examining how capitalist society affects our lives and permeates the way we think, the book ultimately offers a new and better alternative to the way our world is structured today.
Who Should Listen
- People interested in politics, society and philosophy
- Fans of Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Alan Badiou
- Students of philosophy or psychoanalysis