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  • No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won't Change The World
  • Written by author Greg Sharzer
  • Published by Hunt, John Publishing, 4/16/2012
  • Can making things smaller make the world a better place? No Local takes a critical look at localism, an ideology that says small businesses, ethical shopping and community initiatives like gardens and farmers' markets can stop corporate globalization.
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Preface 1

Chapter 1 Twenty First Century Capitalism, Nineteenth Century Economics

What is the local? 7

What is localism? 8

Localism and value 9

Proudhon versus Marx 11

An extremely short history of capitalism 14

Chapter 2 Local Visions, Global Realities 20

Pro-market localism 21

Idealizing the local 22

Does local money stay in local spaces? 25

Consumers in capitalism 29

Ethical consumption 33

Anti-market localism and the problem of autonomy 38

What's wrong with high-tech? 41

Work as freedom 45

LETS, alternative currency and credit schemes 46

Right-wing localism: immigration 50

Now we see the violence inherent in the system 54

Chapter 3 Growing Alternatives? Centralization, Rent and Agriculture 56

How capitalism transforms the land 58

What is rent? 63

Rent today 64

Pro-market urban agriculture 66

The Markham Foodbelt 67

Anti-market urban agriculture 69

The impact of rent 73

Urban agriculture in the Global South 74

Cuba 76

Urban agriculture as resistance? 79

Rent-to-own 80

Chapter 4 Local Shops for Local People 83

What ideology does 84

Who are the petite bourgeois? 87

The politics of the petite bourgeoisie 89

Habitus 90

Morality 93

Voluntary simplicity 96

Voluntarism 97

Community 98

Lifestyle 101

Utopianism 104

Catastrophism and crisis 107

Malthusianism 111

Localist moralism: the locavore 113

Petite Bourgeois hegemony 119

Chapter 5 Building Socialism from Local Spaces 121

Neocommunitarianism 122

Postcapitalist localism 125

Solidarity Economics 129

The tongue-tied left 136

Does capitalism make us powerless? 138

Capitalism as contradictory 141

Combined and uneven development 144

How could a future socialist society work? 145

Against prefigurative lifestyles 147

For collective prefiguration 150

The working class and Marxism 153

Rosa Luxemburg and social revolution 154

Participatory Budgeting in Toronto 157

The Special Diet Campaign 160

Building counter-power: the Ontario Days of Action and the global justice movement 161

Making freedom global 164

Notes and References 168

Bibliography 171


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