Class Talk

A mini source-book on the roots and prevailing features of contemporary capitalist political economy, the book also outlines the alternative of economically viable, politically robust and socio-culturally inclusive democratic socialism fit for the 21st Century and beyond.

A mini source-book on the roots and prevailing features of the contemporary capitalist political economy, Class Talk Communications Unbound outlines the alternative of economically viable, politically robust and socio-culturally inclusive democratic socialism fit for the 21st Century and beyond. Tracing politico-economic and socio-cultural exploitative behaviours to historical antecedents of feudalism, slavery and colonialism, it defines the age of capitalism, examines the dismantling of the Post-Second World War politico-economic consensus, outlines shareholder control of the corporate, banking and communications systems and details the global privatization of public services and the worldwide burgeoning of commercial rentierism.

The book makes visible the web of connections between matters of immense public concern: climate catastrophe and capitalist profiteering, foreign policy and terrorism, the housing crises and the global banking cartel, education systems and politico-economic divisiveness. It signposts the discussions, debates, solidarity and organisational activism in which the poor and workingclass majority must engage if societies are to be built and maintained for the common good.

Autorentext

Born in Glasgow, Helen Davitt left school at fifteen; emigrated at seventeen to California where she worked as head cashier in a loan company and was sacked for refusing to sell dud car insurances on car loans. She returned to the UK, worked full time and did a degree at Birkbeck College, University of London for four nights a week over four years. She taught in inner-city schools, worked as a schools inspector and then as a civilian education officer for the schools abroad for UK servicemen and women.

Inhalt

Contents: Power, Force and Social Class Competitive Production, Exploitation and Profiteering Usurious Banking and the Great Depression WWI, Fascism, WWII, the Cold War Post-WWII Western Economic Growth, Offshoring, Privatisation, Deregulation of Banking and Finance Twenty-first-century Resource Wars Bank Racketeering Big Technology, Agri-business, Big Pharma, Medical Profiteering, Blockchain Trading Blocs Battles for Justice, Quest for Peace Propaganda The Socio-biological Nature of Language Acquisition The Socio-cultural Nature of Literacy Development Sociopathy of Defective Hypotheses Politics of Ego and Entitlement Housing in the UK Grenfell Charities and Foreign Aid Educational Apartheid English National Curriculum and Key Stage Testing Pre-privatisation of State Schools Parliamentary Monitoring of State Education Educational Technology Office for Standards in Education Battle for Critical, Political and Multi-functional Literacy Workplace Democracy Democratisation of Mass Media Education for Democratic Socialism Into the Future Signposts Pandemic Politics.