CHALLENGE CAPITALIST POLITICAL POWER

This book offers a pathway forward, strategically and tactically, to break the hold the two major political parties have on political discourse and social and economic policy. Challenge Capitalist Political Power includes a concise history of neoliberal capitalism and the reasons for its demise in the economic crisis of 2008. Readers learn why US capitalism is shifting from neoliberal globalized to nationalist economics. While Trump's 2016 campaign placed nationalist economics on the nation's political agenda, the Biden administration is implementing the scheme. Different name, same system. The book includes a critique of the Biden-Democratic social benefits program, Build Back Better (BBB), that is/was woefully inadequate. To raise aspirations beyond BBB, the author urges left and progressive forces to plan and implement a multiyear campaign for peace in conjunction with an expanded version of Bernie Sanders, 2016 working class economic program. On foreign policy the author assesses the Biden administration's actions and policies by examining the documents of think tanks involved in formulating what is a continuation of the decades-long bipartisan imperialist foreign policy. If you are you are a socialist, communist or peace and social justice activist in US or elsewhere you'll find this book useful, informative and for US activists a practical guide to action. For US activists who aspire to fight for something more than reforms at the margins, this is a must read.

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Wayne Nealis, is a writer, journalist and activist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of the 2015 book, Which Way Forward?: Challenge the Two-Party Capitalist System, published by Adonde Press, a press he founded in 2015. A series called, Adonde Café Pamphlets, includes a collection of his articles on US electoral politics: The 2016 Election: Analysis, Lessons and Tasks Ahead. His other pamphlets include Global Warming, Capitalism and Socialist Solutions (2016), The Imperialist Offensive and the U.S. Peace Movement (2018) and Trump's Economic Nationalism and the Trajectory of Global Capitalism (2018). His latest book on US politics and political economy, published June 2024, is titled Challenging Capitalist Political Power: In the Biden Era and Beyond. His articles and Op-eds have been published by, Minnpost.com, Minneapolis Spokesman-Recorder, the People's World and the journal WorkingUSA. Prior to attaining a B.A. in journalism at the University of Minnesota, he worked in industry as a machinist and toolmaker in shops where he was an active union member.