The Middle Class Fights Back
eBook - ePub

The Middle Class Fights Back

How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Middle Class Fights Back

How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America

About this book

Providing an insightful diagnosis of what went wrong and prescriptions for a cure, this book is a must-read for angry and confused middle-class Americans who want to understand the forces that are undermining their prosperity and economic security.

The Middle Class Fights Back: How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America presents an unapologetic and coherent analysis of American state capitalism. Is there a way to stop politicians, corporate CEOs, and predatory investors from plunging the entire world further into a new economic dark age? According to author, teacher, and political scientist Brian D'Agostino, PhD, the answer is "yes."

His book identifies the policies undermining middle class prosperity, demolishes their protective ideologies, and offers a visionary but pragmatic agenda of policy and institutional reforms that will encourage and fuel progressive movements of the 21st century. Part I of the book exposes the national security and neoliberal policies that are deindustrializing America and undermining the middle class, as well as the ideologies that deceive and confuse ordinary people about what is occurring. Part II provides a manifesto of policy strategies and institutional reforms that can restore American democracy and prosperity, enabling the United States to once again lead the world by example as it once did in the 18th-century struggle for political democracy.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781440802737
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9798216117285

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I: How the Rich Rule
  9. Part II: A New Progressive Agenda
  10. Appendix: Psychology of the Radical Right
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index
  13. About the Author

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