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Book SynopsisContrary to the thinking of many contemporaries, both capitalism and democracy will not last and are to be superceded one day by post-capitalism and post-democracy. The short-lived triumph of market capitalism and liberal democracy in the post-Cold War era does not imply the coming end of systematic ideology, of structural oppression, or of violent conflict at the rational endpoint of history. Unfortunately, violence does not disappear but only takes a different form of hegemony, as it has throughout history. The difference is, each age has its own form to adjust to, so we believe in ours, and those before us believed in theirs, just as those after us will in theirs. In The Future of Capitalism and Democracy, Peter Baofu evaluates how and why capitalism and democracy have failed at the institutional, organizational, structural, cultural, systemic, cosmological, and bio-psychological levels in order to synthesize the often conflicting ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity (broad
Table of ContentsChapter 1 List of Tables Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Acknowledgements Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Globality, and the Old Hegemony of Capitalism and Democracy Chapter 6 Cognition, Emotions, and Behavior: Global Rationality and Its Dogmatic Assumptions Chapter 7 Culture: Global Culture and Its Essential Dilemmas; Global Morality and Its Immoral Face Chapter 8 Institutions: Global Wealth and Its Competing Voices; Global Governance and Its Conflicting Nature Chapter 9 Organizations: Global Civil Society and Its Ambivalent Future Chapter 10 Structure: Global Stratification and Its New Sameness Chapter 11 Systems: Global Trends and Their Double Games Chapter 12 Cosmos: Post Global Trends and the Cyclical Progression of Hegemony in Multiverses Chapter 13 Conclusion Chapter 14 Post Globality, and the New Hegemony of Post-Capitalism and Post-Democracy Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 Index
