false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174952571m/460686.jpg 460686 7 As soon as you hear the conceit of this book--that there are two great opposing forces at work in the world today, border-crossing capitalism and splintering factionalism, and that they are the two biggest threats to democracy--you know it rings true enough to be worth reading. Although capitalism could have only grown to current levels in the soil of democracies, Benjamin Barber argues that global capitalism now tends to work against the very concept of citizenship, of people thinking for themselves and with their neighbors. Too often now, how we think is the product of a transnational corporation (increasingly, a media corporation) with headquarters elsewhere. And although self-determination is one of the most fundamental of democratic principles, unchecked it has lead to a tribalism (think Bosnia, think Rwanda) in which virtually no one besides the local power elite gets a fair shake. The antidote, Barber concludes, is to work everywhere to resuscitate the non-governmental, non-business spaces in life--he calls them "civic spaces" (such as the village green, voluntary associations of every sort, churches, community schools)--where true citizenship thrives. 449148 1995 Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World total:341|5:53|4:110|3:123|2:41|1:14| 341 1170 569 37 4 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 03 08:49:12 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 08:56:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 17:28:30 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 18:04:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 23 14:41:11 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 14:44:22 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Feb 03 06:53:20 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 06:55:52 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Thu Aug 13 14:16:38 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 14:16:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 22 20:59:01 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 20:59:01 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Oct 05 12:11:05 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 12:11:51 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Apr 15 17:59:02 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 18:00:34 -0700 2009 3 0 true false Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Mar 13 11:23:19 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 13 11:35:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jun 10 12:31:28 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 12:32:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Tue Oct 23 15:27:13 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 09:06:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 09:55:41 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 09:18:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Nov 05 11:06:35 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 11:06:35 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 06:55:28 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 18:29:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sat Aug 02 01:49:33 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 19:21:23 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:30:26 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 00:30:38 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Feb 25 23:54:33 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 17 23:58:29 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Dec 14 08:36:08 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 05:03:59 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 08:36:08 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Thu Dec 27 14:50:17 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 15:17:39 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Fri Feb 08 14:39:32 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 14:41:09 -0800 2008
"Jihad vs. McWorld" is a fascinating and prescient book exposing as fallacy the notion of "The End of History."]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=460686