Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule - Hardcover

Derber, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576752925 ISBN 13: 9781576752920

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

Since 1980, America has been run by a corporate regime that has co-opted both political parties and shifted sovereignty from "we the people" to trans-national corporations. The result has been job insecurity for millions of workers, debts as far as the eye can see, and a dangerous quest for global domination. Democracy itself has been undermined and the Constitution weakened. This regime must be overturned! And, as Charles Derber demonstrates in his provocative book, it can be. After all, Derber points out, there have been other corporate regimes in American history, although this latest version is by far the most extreme. Still, the corporate regimes of the Gilded Age and Roaring Twenties were overturned. To create regime change again, it will require bold, creative strategies, uniting progressives and conservatives in a new politics, which Derber outlines in detail.

Regime Change Begins at Home exposes the many lies the corporate regime has used to maintain itself throughout its history, from the Cold War to the Iraq war, with a particular emphasis on how the Bush administration has cynically sought to, as Condelezza Rice once put it, "capitalize on the opportunities" presented by 9/11. Derber reveals how the Bush administration has used the so-called "war on terror" to frighten and distract the public. But regime change is possible. In Part III, Derber lays out the vision of a new regime, describing the social movements now fighting to achieve it, and the major new political realignment-one spanning the traditional conservative-liberal divide-that can make it happen. Derber does not minimize the difficulty of the task ahead, but he offers hope and specific, sophisticated, often surprising advice for defeating the regime and returning America to its citizens.

About this title

From the Publisher

Part of the new-wave of bestselling political books that call for big change in Washington and America-in keeping with Dude, Where's My Country?, Bushwhacked, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, The Great Unraveling and Thieves in High Places- But With A New Twist!!!!!

By the author of the bestselling books Corporation Nation , The Wilding of America, and The Pursuit of Attention

- Derber is well known and well connected to major national and international media. He has appeared on literally thousands of radio and television programs-including large AM networks and major NPR affiliates, Geraldo Rivera, Fox National News, and Christian Science Monitor Television

- Derber's op-eds have appeared in the Boston Globe, Newsday, In These Times, Tikkun, and other media

- He has been interviewed by scores of major publications including Newsweek, Business Week, Los Angeles Times and Fortune as well as by hundreds of grass roots and alternative publications

- He is a featured speaker for the Mainstream Media Project, which puts independent thinkers on radio around the country

"Charles Derber is one of our most astute and eloquent social critics, and in this book he gives us a powerful argument for bringing the Bush regime to an end and also looking beyond that. His political analysis is persuasive, and is enlivened by graceful prose, all aimed with perfect timing at the upcoming presidential election." -Howard Zinn

"This is a badly needed book. A great many people are deeply disturbed by the drift of events and policy, and rightly ask what they can do that is important enough to matter. Derber aims directly at the very heart of the problems of illegitimate authority, reveals its workings and grim consequences with clarity, insight, and understanding, and lays out a practical and feasible course of action to create a far more free and democratic society that offers real hope for decent survival." -Noam Chomsky

About the Author

Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College and former director of its graduate program on Social Economy and Social Justice. Derber received his undergraduate degree at Yale University and his PhD at the University of Chicago. He is a scholar in the field of political economy, international relations, and society, with eight internationally acclaimed books and major research grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institutes of Mental Health.
Derber’s books have been reviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Washington Monthly, and other publications. His op-eds and essays appear in Newsday, The Boston Globe, and Tikkun, and he is interviewed frequently by Newsweek, Business Week, Time, Bloomberg, and The L.A. Times for stories about business and politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1576752925
• ISBN 13: 9781576752920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304