No Local- one for the book shelf?

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No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won’t Change the World
Greg Sharzer

Localism is incapable of displacing capitalism or even effectively challenging it because it fails to understand how capitalism works.

“It sees the effect of unbridled competition, but not its cause,” Sharzer says. By failing to understand how profit drives production, localism is blind to the pressures capitalism applies to its proposed remedies, which rely on the market or involve time and money that most working-class people don’t have. More utopian ideology than political framework, and too often served with a dose of moral superiority, localism never adequately explains by what magic small businesses or collectives can eclipse giant corporations."

Full review at link

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54034

 

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alanjjohnstone wrote:

Full review at linkhttp://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54034

Not a bad review but there's a better one here on this site.

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