A review by kosr
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Marv Waterstone, Noam Chomsky

5.0

An excellent series of chapters pulled from a number of lectures by Marv Waterstone and Noam Chomsky. Each chapter links into the next, starting with a chapter challenging prevalent common sense within the neoliberal, finacialised capitalism that the Western world (and other countries that have it forced down their throat) is currently residing under. Chapters proceeding after this tackle militarism, environmentalism and social movements. There's a framework that discusses marx and the 'M>C>M' model is used regularly to discuss resource acquisition and market penetration by military and government forces abroad, as such I would recommend this to anyone wanting to understand to some degree a Marxist viewing of our world as it is right now. There's also a short chapter at the end on covid - the virus had just started to spread at the time of printing - which is very insightful.