Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent
Capitalism, Democracy and the Organisation of Consent

Contents

Foreword by Gerald Sussman

1. Introduction by Rebecca Fisher

Part 1 - The Contradictory Nature of Democracy Under Capitalism

2. The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: An Historical View
Rebecca Fisher

3. Market Patriotism: Liberal Democracy Unmasked
David Whyte

4. Global Rebellion: the Coming Chaos?
William I. Robinson

Part 2 - Masking the Contradiction

5. The Liberal Gatekeepers: State-Corporate Power’s Little
Helpers
David Cromwell and David Edwards, Media Lens

6. Screening Our Screens: Propaganda and the Entertainment
Industry: An Interview with Matthew Alford
Rebecca Fisher

7. Celebrity Philanthropy: In the Service of Corporate
Propaganda
Michael Barker

8. The Politics of Language and the Language of Political
Regression
James Petras

Part 3 - Co-opting Dissent

9. Neoliberal Hegemony and the Organisation of Consent
William K. Carroll and Matthew Greeno

10. Reforming Resistance: Neoliberalism and the Co-option of
Civil Society Organisations in Palestine
Sibille Merz

11. Do Capitalists Fund Revolutions?
Michael Barker

12. Strange Contours: Resistance and the Manipulation of
People Power
Edmund Berger

13. On Shock and Organisation: Riots, Resistance and the Need
for Consistency
The Free Association

14. “Criminality Pure and Simple”: Comparing the Response to
the Student Protests and the August Riots
Katie Pollard and Maria Young

Part 4 - Legitimating the Repression of Dissent

15. Repression in the Neoliberal University
Charles Thorpe

16. When Co-option Fails
Tom Anderson

17. Infiltrated, Intimidated and Undermined: How Police
Infiltration Can Mute Political Dissent: An Interview with
Verity Smith from Cardiff Anarchist Network
Tom Anderson

Part 5 - ‘Democracy Promotion’ in Pursuit of Global Hegemony

18. Grassroots Globalization: Underneath the Rhetoric of
‘Democracy Promotion’
Edmund Berger

19. Egypt and International Capital: Is this what Democracy
looks like?
Edmund Berger

20. The Insidious Nature of ‘Democracy Promotion’: The Case of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Rebecca Fisher