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The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back (edition 2006)

by Jeff Faux

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Acclaim for The Global Class War ""You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. As Faux makes clear, the globalization debate is really about whose interests are served by global elites, and how we need to go about reclaiming a democracy that serves ordinary people. This book should transform public discourse in America."" -Robert Kuttner, founding coeditor of the American Prospect and a contributing columnist to BusinessWeek ""Jeff Faux's astonishing story of how class works will scandalize the best names in Wall Street and Washington-especially the much admired Robert Rubin, who along with other elites colluded behind the backs of ordinary citizens in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The most cynical Americans will be shocked by the sordid details. This really is an important book."" -William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism and Secrets of the Temple ""Globalization is a cover for American imperialism, but the beneficiaries are not the American people at the expense of foreigners but corporate executives at the expense of working-class and poor people wherever they may be. Jeff Faux offers a comprehensive and devastating analysis."" -Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire… (more)
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Title:The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back
Authors:Jeff Faux
Info:Wiley (2006), Edition: 1, Paperback, 304 pages
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Could be better titled. Maybe "NAFTA Sucks, the Impending U.S. Economic Catastrophe, and the Tripartite Unification of North America." It's a decent analysis of criticisms of NAFTA, a brief history of the economic crisis of the US and the possible disastrous future arising from neoliberal policies, and finally ends with a somewhat far-fetched proposal for the complete economic integration of the US, Mexico and Canada, going so far as a Continental Bill of Rights, and other political integrations. ( )
  jtownsle | Jul 21, 2008 |
A must read! ( )
  abuannie | Jan 7, 2008 |
Chilling. The sort of thing I'd love to be able to write off as conspiracy theory nonsense, but far too coherent, well-written, well-documented, in accord with what else I've read on the subjects, and hits far too close to home.

This book will never be a fraction as popular as it ought to be; too many people are making too much money off of keeping this sort of thing out of the public awareness.

"This sort of thing" covers NAFTA, globalization, class politics, outsourcing, Mexican politics, American politics, transnational corporations and their business practices, some fiddly but rather important global finance stuff, and the enormous American debt. The subtitle says it all, really.

I read this book for a class in conjunction with Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat." This book is largely all the stuff Friedman left out in order to make his book remotely palatable. I will not get into the implications of Friedman's book being a bestseller and this one being obscure in relation to corporate media and the average American's awareness of reality.

Despite the unfashionable title ("class warfare" is so Marxist, after all), this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know what it is that the media is working so hard to obfuscate all the time. ( )
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Acclaim for The Global Class War ""You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. As Faux makes clear, the globalization debate is really about whose interests are served by global elites, and how we need to go about reclaiming a democracy that serves ordinary people. This book should transform public discourse in America."" -Robert Kuttner, founding coeditor of the American Prospect and a contributing columnist to BusinessWeek ""Jeff Faux's astonishing story of how class works will scandalize the best names in Wall Street and Washington-especially the much admired Robert Rubin, who along with other elites colluded behind the backs of ordinary citizens in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The most cynical Americans will be shocked by the sordid details. This really is an important book."" -William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism and Secrets of the Temple ""Globalization is a cover for American imperialism, but the beneficiaries are not the American people at the expense of foreigners but corporate executives at the expense of working-class and poor people wherever they may be. Jeff Faux offers a comprehensive and devastating analysis."" -Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire

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