The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change

Written by Noam Chomsky and C.J. Polychroniou

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin

In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and even enhance the features of a dog-eat-dog society to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and police violence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Nov 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666154368

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including On Language, Understanding Power (edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel), American Power and the New Mandarins, For Reasons of State, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, Towards a New Cold War, The Essential Chomsky (edited by Anthony Arnove), On Anarchism, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate (with Michel Foucault), and The Withdrawal and On Cuba (both with Vijay Prashad), all published by The New Press. He lives in São Paulo, Brazil.

Reviews for The Precipice

[Jakob Sletteland · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

An important series of interviews, sobering, thoughtful and evidence-based, reviewing how the %.1 - the ruling class of corporate elites, heads of state and captains of industry, both democrats and republicans, if republicans more ferociously - continue their work to bring organized human life to the precipice of extinction. The history and rise of neoliberalism, AKA market fundamentalism, is laid bare as the most advanced form of capitalist exploitation in existence. In short, the book discusses how the rich are killing the poor and the planet, and provides an urgent plea to organize for a better world, or accept that for most life on earth, there won't be any world left at all.