Destroying Democracy

Jane Duncan (Author) Jane Duncan is a professor in the Department of Journalism, Film and Television at the University of Johannesburg. Linda Gordon (Author) Linda Gordon is a professor of History and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Gunnett Kaaf (Author) Gunnett Kaaf is a fiscal policy research manager in the Free State Provincial Treasury, and a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein. Dale T McKinley (Author) Dale T McKinley is an independent writer, researcher and lecturer as well as research and education officer for the International Labour, Research and Information Group. Alf Gunvald Nilsen (Author) Alf Gunvald Nilsen is a professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. Devan Pillay (Author) Devan Pillay is an associate professor and former head of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Mandla J Radebe (Author) Mandla J Radebe is a communication practitioner, senior research associate at the University of Johannesburg's School of Communication and a Fellow of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. Alfredo Saad-Filho (Author) Alfredo Saad-Filho is a professor of International Development at King's College London, and most recently author of The Age of Crisis: Neoliberalism, the Collapse of Democracy, and the Pandemic (2021).Ingar Solty (Author) Ingar Solty is a senior research fellow in Foreign, Peace and Security Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung's Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. Michelle Williams (Editor) Michelle Williams is associate professor in Sociology and chairperson of the Global Labour University programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Vishwas Satgar (Editor) Vishwas Satgar, a democratic eco-socialist, is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

• AcknowledgementsAcronyms and AbbreviationsPreface: Neoliberal Capitalism in the Time of Covid-19: Destroying Democracy and Rising Authoritarianism - Michelle Williams and Vishwas SatgarPart I: Neoliberal Capitalism’s Destruction of DemocracyChapter 1 The Crisis of Democracy: Neoliberal Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Reclaiming Democracy - Michelle Williams Chapter 2 The Rise of Eco-Fascism - Vishwas SatgarPart II: Neoliberal Capitalism Against Democracy Globally Chapter 3 Populism and Fascism: Lessons from the 1920s Ku Klux Klan - Linda GordonChapter 4 What Do ‘Unruly’ Right-Wing Authoritarian Nationalists Do When They Rule? The United States under Donald Trump - Ingar SoltyChapter 5 Brazilian Democracy Facing Authoritarian Neoliberalism - Alfredo Saad FilhoChapter 6 India’s Trajectories of Change, 2004-2019 - Alf Gunvald NilsenPart III: Neoliberal Capitalism Against Democracy in South AfricaChapter 7 The Dialectic of Democracy: Capitalism, Populism and Working-Class Politics - Devan PillayChapter 8 Democracy and the Right to Know in South Africa’s Capitalist Transition - Dale T McKinley Chapter 9 South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Media and Democracy - Mandla J RadebeChapter 10 Securitising Protests as Domestic Instability in South Africa - Jane DuncanChapter 11 Prospects for a Left Renewal in South Africa - Gunnett KaafConclusion - Vishwas Satgar ContributorsIndex