Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States 1st Edition

This book is a brutal wake up call to the coming societal catastrophes that await us if we don't change our vision of the future. We need to change from our brand of fascism quickly or we could see the rapid militarization and imprisonment of large swathes of our population. There is still hope, but we need to act quickly.

This book succeeds in exposing the failure of economics to recognize the impossibility of sustaining a market society at the expense of the welfare and wellbeing of society. What Derber makes clear, is that it is the carefully manufactured fiction of a self-regulating market itself, that is now facing a crisis of legitimacy, that can not be deferred by seeking justification with the rhetoric of economics. To the doctrine that there is no alternative (TINA) Derber replies, '"A newly intensified problem of "surplus people" is one of the great sociopathic crises of capitalism. The United States is no longer a manufacturing economy but it manufactures a huge surplus population of people. This includes not only the official unemployed and underemployed but millions of students, prisoners soldiers and retirees " This book goes on at length to propose that the alternative to facing this crisis and confronting the contradictions of capitalism, is a turn toward a more repressive corporately organized state or an even darker theocratic dominion. While his prognosis is chilling his analysis is the most wide ranging and intellectually satisfying among the many currently in print.

One cannot understand the sick idiocy of the United States without engaging this volume, for it identifies the social virus that is robbing this country of its full potential. Like Socrates, Derber shows that ignorance is not bliss--especially among leaders, elites, and their vested interests. The book is a must read for anyone mature enough to perceive the intellectual truth about the condition of this society.

Derber's exploration of the psycho dynamics of the relationship between behavior and attitudes is telling. The impact of historical events and their predictibility on the masses is startling and is explored with great clarity in this work .Derber is uniquely qualified to trace the historicity of belief as they manifest in behaviors movements and their parallel to todays events and their political outcomes.

I haven't delved into the book; only looked at the introduction and a few other places inside. Too soon to give a thorough critique, but it looks promising!

New light on what is going on in the society we live in. A real eye opener. I had read something similar in an article on the internet, but I did not know that this book was out there. When I found it, I was elated. I would call this recommended reading.

An excellent book about the current state of social and political affairs in the United States. Charles Derber is a fantastic writer and sociologist.

Excellent book. It answers the why about peoples behavior today.