The Challenges of the New Social Democracy: Social Capital and Civic Association or Class Struggle?

by Aram Eisenschitz, Jamie Gough, Raju J Das

Raju J. Das, Aram Eisenschitz and Jamie Gough provide a Marxist critique of new social democracy as the dominant contemporary strategy for local economic and social development. In 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004546871
• ISBN13: 9789004546875
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 232 Pages