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The Crisis of American Democracy
Four lectures with contemporaneous analysis of the 2000 and 2004 US Presidential elections. Through a detailed historical analysis, North establishes that behind the breakdown of democracy in the United States lies the deterioration of the global economic position of American capitalism, and the development of unprecedented levels of wealth concentration and social inequality. The turn to aggressive militarism abroad, and the vast expansion of police state measures during the Bush administration arose not from the "terrorist threat", but from the extreme sharpening of social and class tensions within American society itself.
The re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004 marked an ominous turning point in American and international politics, presaging an escalation of its program of international militarism and domestic repression.
The volume also includes an incisive obituary to Ronald Reagan and an assessment of the Kennedy presidency written by North and Bill Van Auken on the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
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| Author | David North |
| Publisher | Mehring Books |
| Publication Date | 2005 |
| Pages | 147 |
| Publication Type | Paperback |
| ISBN | 978-1-875639-36-6 |
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David North is the chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and lectures on questions relating to contemporary US and international politics, European and Soviet history, and the history of the Trotskyist movement, including The Crisis of American Democracy; Marxism, History and Socialist Consciousness; Leon Trotsky and the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification; and The Heritage We Defend . |
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