No Local- one for the book shelf?
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No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won’t Change the World
Greg SharzerLocalism 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."
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http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54034
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