{"product_id":"the-challenges-of-the-new-social-democracy-social-capital-and-civic-association-or-class-struggle-9798888902448","title":"The Challenges of the New Social Democracy: Social Capital and Civic Association or Class Struggle?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this important study, Raju J Das, Jamie Gough and Aram Eisenschitz provide a Marxist critique of new social democracy as the dominant contemporary strategy for local economic and social development.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn both the global North and South, new social democracy seeks to develop social capital, strengthen civil society, build not-for-profit enterprises, encourage self-help, and foster community ties. It seeks participatory forms of local politics to achieve a local class consensus. It promises to improve people's economic and social conditions in the face of neoliberal capitalism, and to empower them. The authors argue that this strategy is severely limited by, and internalizes, its capitalist environment. They show that social enterprise can be developed in socialist ways, and contribute to a local politics based in class struggle. But social capital cannot replace the struggle of the exploited and oppressed against capitalism and for a socialist society, a strategy which the authors outline for the local scale. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaju J Das\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor at York University, Toronto. His research interests include Marxist political economy and social theory. His recent books are \u003cem\u003eMarxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMarx's Capital, Capitalism, and Limits to the State\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAram Eisenschitz\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches at the Business School, Middlesex University, UK. His research interests include spatial political economy, urban planning and tourism. He and Jamie Gough are the authors of \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Local Economic Policy and Spaces of Social Exclusion\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJamie Gough\u003c\/strong\u003e taught at Sheffield University. His research interests include spatial political economy, local and national societies, theories of economic crisis, dynamics of the labour process, social reproduction, and poverty. He is author of \u003cem\u003eWork, Locality and the Rhythms of Capital\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869415870738,"sku":"9798888902448","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e534829d-a9b1-49be-8428-1c7e06782ec7.jpg?v=1737756605","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-challenges-of-the-new-social-democracy-social-capital-and-civic-association-or-class-struggle-9798888902448","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}