Rinky-dink Revolution: : Moving Beyond Capitalism by Withholding Consent, Creative Constructions, and Creative Destructions

Waitzkin, Howard

ISBN 10: 1988832535 / ISBN 13: 9781988832531

Published by Daraja Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rinky-dink Revolution: : Moving Beyond Capitalism by Withholding Consent, Creative Constructions, and Creative Destructions
• Publisher: Daraja Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1988832535
• ISBN 13: 9781988832531
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This pamphlet tackles the question: how do we get from A to B, capitalism to post-capitalism? It is critical reading to understand why: Capitalist-oriented industrial agriculture and its destruction of habitat are the upstream causes that led to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as other past and future pandemics of devastating, emerging viral pathogens; COVID-19 may trigger a collapse of the global capitalist system but it is not the cause; Health-care and public-health systems organized around capitalist principles don't do well in pandemics, compared to those not organized around capitalist principles; The current economic collapse, triggered by a pandemic, opens a door for revolutionary transformation.Rinky-dink Revolution involves actions and inactions that are easy, safe, mundane, unglamorous, and feasible within every person's life.

About the Author

Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of New Mexico and practices internal medicine part-time in rural New Mexico and Illinois. For many years he has been active in struggles focusing on health in the United States and Latin America. He is coordinator, with the Working Group for Health Beyond Capitalism, of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, Monthly Review Press, 2018.