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"Catalogues the almost irreparable damage and corruption visited on the fabric of humanity and its collective values of solidarity, as well as shared interests, by the practices of modern capitalism."Morning Star
"A wise old man, raging against the rise of new evils and yet retaining a passion for a redemptive and transformative mission for sociology and its concerns, is something laudable."Times Higher Education
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The term ‘collateral damage′ has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms. But collateral damage is not unique to the world of armed intervention – it is also one of the most salient and striking dimensions of contemporary social inequality. The inflammable mixture of growing social inequality and the rising volume of human suffering marginalized as ‘collateral′ is becoming one of most cataclysmic problems of our time.
For the political class, poverty is commonly seen as a problem of law and order – a matter of how to deal with individuals, such as unemployed youths, who fall foul of the law. But treating poverty as a criminal problem obscures the social roots of inequality, which lie in the combination of a consumerist life philosophy propagated and instilled by a consumer–oriented economy, on the one hand, and the rapid shrinking of life chances available to the poor, on the other. In our contemporary, liquid–modern world, the poor are the collateral damage of a profit–driven, consumer–oriented society – ‘aliens inside′ who are deprived of the rights enjoyed by other members of the social order.
In this new book Zygmunt Bauman – one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time – examines the selective affinity between the growth of social inequality and the rise in the volume of ‘collateral damage′ and considers its implications and its costs.
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'...defamiliarizing the familiar and familiarizing the unfamiliar'
As in his book Globalization - The Human Consequences Mr. Bauman expresses his worries about the fact that there is no longer a connection between merchandise and value and consequently the rich have no use for the poor or their working power.
The economic and the political power are separated which makes it hard if not impossible for the democratic governments of the world to stay in power. They might have ressources to protect the middle class from the fear which the government itself install in order to gain votes but they do not have the power to keep national companies inside the borders instead of transferring to China where work is cheap and the rules of environment protection easier to come by.
As also underlined by Anthony Giddens in his The Politics of Climate Change the fear factor is rather important in gaining the necessary votes when it comes to democratic reign. Perhaps because security is one of the few things that modern government can still provide. The very same fear that makes us victims of political manipulation is the core subject of Phillip Cole in The Myth of Evil and of the book Fear by the Norwegian philosopher Lars Svendsen.
As usual Bauman has to mention the unjustice of this earth: In Europa and USA 17 billion dollars are used every year on pet food - and economists have calculated that 19 billion dollars is the amount which it will take to save the entire humanity from starvation.
Despite the severe critics of the society run over by old fashioned materialism this book of Bauman's is rather optimistic and provides suggestions for the future. Bauman is always worth reading.
As in his book Globalization - The Human Consequences Mr. Bauman expresses his worries about the fact that there is no longer a connection between merchandise and value and consequently the rich have no use for the poor or their working power.
The economic and the political power are separated which makes it hard if not impossible for the democratic governments of the world to stay in power. They might have ressources to protect the middle class from the fear which the government itself install in order to gain votes but they do not have the power to keep national companies inside the borders instead of transferring to China where work is cheap and the rules of environment protection easier to come by.
As also underlined by Anthony Giddens in his The Politics of Climate Change the fear factor is rather important in gaining the necessary votes when it comes to democratic reign. Perhaps because security is one of the few things that modern government can still provide. The very same fear that makes us victims of political manipulation is the core subject of Phillip Cole in The Myth of Evil and of the book Fear by the Norwegian philosopher Lars Svendsen.
As usual Bauman has to mention the unjustice of this earth: In Europa and USA 17 billion dollars are used every year on pet food - and economists have calculated that 19 billion dollars is the amount which it will take to save the entire humanity from starvation.
Despite the severe critics of the society run over by old fashioned materialism this book of Bauman's is rather optimistic and provides suggestions for the future. Bauman is always worth reading.
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