Democracy and Delusion
10 Myths in South African Politics
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South African politics is riddled with delusions. Many common political arguments come pre-packaged in an old and dusty box - but the self-evident truths are not, in fact, so indisputable. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh sets out to dismantle that box. He argues that free education is far from impossible, the ANC's liberation narrative is too idyllic to swallow, land reform is not the first step to chaos, and the media is not free.... In this incisive, informed book, we find not only challenges to commonly held opinions, but optimism about South Africa's future, and solutions to old problems. A fresh perspective on South African politics.
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In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and even enhance the features of a dog-eat-dog society to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and police violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Of Incalculable Importance
- De Anonymous User en 12-15-21
De: Noam Chomsky, y otros
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The Great Degeneration
- How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Paul Slack
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 262
Best-selling author and world-renowned historian Niall Ferguson has won widespread acclaim for thought-provoking works such as Civilization and High Financier. The Great Degeneration tackles nothing less than the decline of Western civilization. Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West’s once rock-solid foundations. Ferguson excavates the causes and shows how heroic leadership and radical reform are needed to right the course.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb as always!
- De Ivanhoe en 08-28-17
De: Niall Ferguson
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Creating Freedom
- The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future
- De: Raoul Martinez
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 40
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A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and our own identities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The BEST book, I've listened to in a long time
- De G. Newton en 04-16-17
De: Raoul Martinez
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The People vs. Democracy
- Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
- De: Yascha Mounk
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy - individual rights and the popular will - are at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of public contestation, a system of "rights without democracy" took hold. Populists who rail against this say they want to return power to the people. But in practice they create a system of "democracy without rights."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not worth it
- De DailyShopper en 06-07-18
De: Yascha Mounk
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A Generation of Sociopaths
- How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
- De: Bruce Cannon Gibney
- Narrado por: Wayne Pyle
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 757
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 654
What happens when a society is run by people who are antisocial? Welcome to baby boomer America. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Honest introspection required
- De Niki en 03-31-17
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Fantasy Island
- Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
- De: Ed Morales
- Narrado por: Sean Duffy
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gringo Narrattion
- De shakira julia en 02-08-21
De: Ed Morales
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The Stakes
- America at the Point of No Return
- De: Michael Anton
- Narrado por: Dan Crue
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 236
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 205
Two months before the 2016 presidential election, an anonymously published essay titled "The Flight 93 Election" rallied conservatives to charge the cockpit by voting for Trump. Michael Anton, the author of that controversial viral essay, now says that the last few years have only served to prove his Flight 93 thesis: The left has become more aggressive, more vindictive, and more dangerous - and the stakes have never been higher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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America, this is your future
- De Sarah Carnello en 09-28-20
De: Michael Anton
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Why Vote Leave
- De: Daniel Hannan
- Narrado por: Daniel Hannan
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 26
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MEP and award-winning political writer Daniel Hannan argues for a British exit ahead of the coming referendum. Hannan demonstrates that the EU is past its sell-by date, rendered obsolete by technological advances, shrinking economically and less relevant to our economic needs than ever. Worse than that, he shows that the EU can’t reform, can’t be democratic and can’t be divorced from its goal of ever-closer political union.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A MUST READ EVEN AFTER THE REFERENDUM!
- De Christine en 06-28-16
De: Daniel Hannan
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The Conscience of a Liberal
- De: Paul Krugman
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 520
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 253
America emerged from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal with strong democratic values and broadly shared prosperity. But for the past 30 years, American politics has been dominated by a conservative movement determined to undermine the New Deal's achievements. Now, the tide may be turning, and in The Conscience of a Liberal Paul Krugman, the world's most widely read economist and one of its most influential political commentators, charts the way to reform.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!!!
- De carl801 en 12-04-07
De: Paul Krugman
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
- America and the World in the Free Market Era
- De: Gary Gerstle
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cursory, unoriginal, class-blind
- De A Reviewer en 10-24-22
De: Gary Gerstle
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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
- Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
- De: Ganesh Sitaraman
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable - and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America's republic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very well done
- De JLyman en 08-27-17
De: Ganesh Sitaraman
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Blood Oil
- Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
- De: Leif Wenar
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 20 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the gas station and the mall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Caveat: Human beings -- Totally untrustworthy
- De lost the power cord could you send me another cord address 13 east wilmont ave somers point nj 08244 en 05-17-16
De: Leif Wenar
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The New Road to Serfdom
- A Letter of Warning to America
- De: Daniel Hannan
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 101
In The New Road to Serfdom, British conservative Daniel Hannan argues forcefully and passionately that Americans must not allow Barack Obama to take us down the road to EU-style social democracy. Instead, he pleads with Americans not to abandon the founding principles that made their country a beacon of liberty for the rest of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent read from a brilliant man...
- De Martin en 10-30-11
De: Daniel Hannan
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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
- A People's History of Fake News - From The Revolutionary War to The War on Terror
- De: Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong, Ajamu Baraka - foreword, y otros
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, the genocide of indigenous people, and the more than a century’s worth of imperialist war that the U.S. has wrought on the planet. Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong detail just what Captain America’s shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. foreign policy, how Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates engage in humanitarian imperialism, and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still processing
- De D'Juan Eastman en 07-03-19
De: Roberto Sirvent, y otros
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Forgotten Continent
- The Battle for Latin America’s Soul
- De: Michael Reid
- Narrado por: Gary Dikeos
- Duración: 18 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa’s moral crusade nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world’s largest reserves of arable land, and 8.5 percent of global oil, is busily transforming its political and economic landscape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Reporting / Disorganized Content
- De Steven Schuster en 02-11-12
De: Michael Reid
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Democracy and Delusion
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- Anonymous User
- 05-01-21
Brilliant
Read the book and listening to the audio book is like discovering new gems. Important book for helping to better understand South Africa
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-04-22
Not That You'll Agree with It All
But you'll probably recognize that it's a well argued, well written brief for the author's 10 count indictment of the ANC. It so lucidly expostulates that you carefully consider the evidence & argumentation it musters. And however much you do disagree, you will likely appreciate the author's fresh, sometimes morally profound perspectives.
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