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* ANNOUNCEMENT BOOK IN PROGRESS *
"Globalization and the Revolutionary Imperative"
- an annotated collection of topical essays -
CADRE, 8 April 1998
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Richard K. Moore - producer, author
Carolyn Ballard - chief editor, co-author
Wade B. Ward - senior editor, co-author
- Produced in collaboration with South End Press -
To our readers:
I am offering you this "book report" for two reasons.
First, I want to extend an invitation to writers and publishers to
collaborate with us in this endeavor. You can tell from the Book Design
below what our scope of interest is. We are seeking exceptional
contributions, whether original, previously-published, or specially adapted
to this project.
We ask of potential contributors: What is it that _only you_ can say
exactly the way it _needs_ to be said? What piece of the puzzle have you
_really_ figured out? If you can say it clearly, in your own style and
focus, and if we agree that it needs to be heard, then we will find a way
to incorporate it effectively into the book. (See: "editor's thread",
below).
We are planning to maintain the book-in-development (ie, drafts in various
states of completion) on our web site, available to the public -- our
mission with the book is to accomplish some revolutionary
conscious-raising, and we'd like to use the web for that purpose while
we're waiting for the slower process of print media.
The second reason for this posting is simply to share the book outline --
our best effort at a taxonomy that makes sense of the modern world and
leads to an understanding of its democratic potential.
Feedback and contributions are invited.
Please forward this posting to (writing related) people or lists who you
believe would be interested, and where it would be on-topic.
kind regards,
rkm
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"Globalization and the Revolutionary Imperative"
Book Design - 1.0
8 April 1998
Richard K. Moore <•••@••.•••>
Book Architecture
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This book will be a collection of essays (& poems & aphorisms & photos &
whatever) but with an innovative twist: there will be a hand-holding
editor's-thread flowing through the material that will provide continuity,
will articulate development of the book's thesis, and will add
substantiating material to the featured pieces.
The editor's thread will consist of the following:
1) a Introduction and Summation for the book as a whole, and for each
Part
2) a "Book Map" -- a foldout spread with map-of-world, history-timeline,
and taxonomy-map: each of these is used to present a unique
graphical map-of-contents to the books material, making it easy, for
example, to find all essays that deal with Africa, or that deal with
economics
4) sidebars or inserted pages, of whatever appropriate design, wherever
beneficial to development of thesis:
-a source item (letter, photo, newsclip) illustrating an essay
remark
-a poem, quotation, map, diagram, etc, that enhances or clarifies
the presentation
5) a specially-flagged "Editor's Narrative Thread", easily distinguished
from all other material, which pops up from time to time, as
sidebars or an inserted paragraph or two. This is the "reader's
friend", it provides thesis-orientation, reminds of points made
elsewhere that are relevant to the current discussion, raises
questions that remain to be dealt with, etc.
The use of the editor's thread enables the purity and charm of the essay
form to be retained without sacrificing completeness or rigor. The
diversity of essay styles and viewpoints will add considerably to the
appeal and readability of the book, as compared to the typical serious
non-fiction genre.
This book will be unusually inviting and reader-friendly, will be designed
to appeal to mass-audiences worldwide, will be accessible to all, and yet
will
be informative even to the academic and thoroughly rigorous in its thesis
development.
Book Design
^^^^^^^^^^^
Introduction
Maps of Contents
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PART I -- GLOBALIZATION: what it is, where it came from,
where it's heading
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Capitalism, democracy, and the nation state: a five-
century struggle among elites, the people, and the
environment
Chapter 2 - Pax Americana, the "free-world", and neoliberalism:
the destabilization of the nation-state world-system
Chapter 3 - The global economy, TNC's, and the Commission system:
the path to corporate neo-feudalism
Chapter 4 - The New World Order: media and propaganda, programmed
factionalism, police-state regimes, the hi-tech elite
strike force, the China question
Summation
- - -
PART II -- ENVISIONING A SANE WORLD: sustainability AND prosperity AND
a robust ecosystem; collaborative international relations;
genuinely democratic governance under existing constitutions
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Sustainable economics, appropriate technology, and
ecosystem-awareness: prosperity in harmony with a
finite world
Chapter 2 - Consensus, collaboration, and democracy: escaping from
the trap of competitive politics and power brokerage;
learning from the Cuban model
Chapter 3 - An agenda for democratic reform: taking back politics;
setting societal goals; incremental system evolution
Chapter 4 - Collaborative internationalism: the world as community;
national diversity and human evolution; a collaborative
approach to the global commons; the question of counter-
collaborative nations
Summation
- - -
PART III -- THE REVOLUTIONARY IMPERATIVE: the necessity of global
democratic revolution; the vanishing window of opportunity;
building the revolution
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The seeds of revolution: arrogance of the elite; over-
dependence on sophisticated propaganda; universal
exploitation as goad to revolutionary consciousness;
Chapter 2 - Achieving mass popular consciousness: coalition networking
and the aligning of scattered forces; reaching the people
through creative use of media; realizing empowerment
Chapter 3 - Engaging the elite corporate regime: understanding the
the elite game plan and its defenses; identifying vul-
nerabilities and anticipating responses; launching the
revolution and protecting its flanks
Chapter 4 - The Democratic Renaissance: the plentiful society;
creative collaboration in place of greed and competition;
returning to our societal roots; the next stage of human
evolution
Summation
- - -
Summation
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"Seeking an Effective Democratic
Response to Globalization
and Corporate Power"
- an international workshop for activist leaders -
*>---> June 25 <incl> July 2 - 1998 - Nova Scotia - Canada
> Organized by: Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance <
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Create a sane and livable world
Bring corporate globalization under control.
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