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Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy by Benjamin R. Barber is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Jihad vs. McWorld is an analysis of the fundamental conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. Jihad vs. McWorld offers a lens through which to understand the chaotic events of the post-Cold War world. Benjamin R. Barber argues that if you look only at the business section of the daily newspaper, you would be convinced that the world was increasingly united, that borders were increasingly porous, that corporate mergers were steadily knitting the globe into a single international market. But if you focus only on the front page, you would be convinced of just the opposite: that the world was increasingly riven by fratricide, civil war, and the breakup of nations. Barber provides a single map that unites these two sides of the same coin, and convincingly demonstrates that what capitalism and fundamentalism have in common is a distaste for democracy. For both, in different ways, lay siege to the nation-state itself - heretofore the only guarantor of conditions that have permitted democracy to flourish. Democracy, Barber suggests, may well fall victim to a twin-pronged attack: by a global capitalism run rampant whose essential driving force

Who reads Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy?

Author

Benjamin R. Barber

Publisher

Ballentine Books

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780345383044

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Philosophy

Rating

3.52 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14