Is Fascism Inevitable? – Socialistresistance.org

6.6.18

Is Fascism Inevitable? – Socialistresistance.org: Phil Hearse reviews Can Democracy Survive Globalised Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner, Norton Publishers, May 2018

Since the global financial crisis in 2007-8, and the consequent anti-capitalist mobilisations like the Occupy! movement and the struggle against austerity in Greece, there have been a series of books arguing for major reforms to capitalism (1). Robert Kuttner’s important new book is perhaps the most radical of these, making a trenchant critique of globalised capitalism and proposing sweeping reforms to rebuild a mixed economy which works in the interests of everyone (especially workers) and pumps life back into liberal demonocracy. Basing himself on the work of his hero Karl Polanyi (2), Kuttner’s basic message is that unless major reforms are made within capitalism, then fascism or right-wing authoritarianism is virtually inevitable.