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A superband superbly readableanalysis of the way our ruling elites manufacture their own legitimacy and protect wealth and power. While deploring the rise of authoritarian nationalist movements of the Right, the authors do not shy away from criticizing the Lefts focus on identity politics of race and gender which has diverted attention from the fundamental requirement to tackle the injustices and irrationality caused by capitalism. Yet Derber and Magrass offer hope as they outline the growing moves by progressive Americans to build united fronts at the local and state level which are challenging the dominant narrative and bringing significant social and economic change and genuine security. Derber and Magrass provide a much-needed and optimistic antidote to Trump-inspired gloom.

Jonathan Steele, former Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Guardian

I love how Moving Beyond Fear weaves the metaphor of the upstairs/downstairs house throughout the book to paint an easy-to-understand picture of a capitalist-built house where the wealth produced by downstairs workers goes to a few upstairs residents living in luxury. Derber and Magrass show how the mortar holding this wobbly house together is fear and insecurity, and how the weaknesses of the left have failed to shake its foundation. Their solution? Read the book. A much more beautiful home in which we all thrive is awaiting.

Medea Benjamin, founder of CODEPINK; author of Inside Iran

I just devoured this book. Its hard to put down once you start it. Moving Beyond Fear exposes the playbook of authoritarian leaders, past and present. As the American Dream fades, political leaders use fear, fostering security stories to turn the lower classes against one another. This is a must-read for those eager to stem fascism and the looming catastrophes of climate change and nuclear proliferation.

Kathleen Odell Korgen, William Paterson University; author of The Engaged Sociologist

This book is just whats needed. It explains lucidly and powerfully how fear is used from anti-immigrant nationalist politics throughout history into the Trump White House and right-wing radio today. Derber and Magrass give us the analytical tools to understand the power of security stories and their role in legitimating the interests of authoritarian elites. Moving Beyond Fear is an engaging read to help us reject the politics and narratives of fear for an authentic security of greater equity, social injustice, and vibrant democracy.

Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies; author of Born on Third Base

Derber and Magrass offer a timely critique of US national security policy. They show how successive US administrations have created false enemies to justify expansion of empire. They criticize both right-wing Republicans and the liberal Democrats who have failed to provide effective opposition. Their book is essential reading for anyone interested in national security issues.

Reese Erlich, freelance foreign correspondent for NPR, CBC, and Foreign Policy; author of The Iran Agenda Today, Inside Syria, and Conversations with Terrorists

Why do people vote against their best interests? Why do many working people vote for their class enemy, a con artist who is dedicated slavishly to wealth and private power and is shafting them at every turn? The question is carefully addressed in this powerful study which explores a central part of the answer: the security story mixed with raw tribalism, an amalgam with ancient vintage, commonly implemented in ways that gravely undermine security. Not for the first time in historyand as Mark Twain reminded us, while history doesnt repeat, it rhymes. Sometimes ominously, sometimes with hope.

Noam Chomsky

Moving Beyond Fear

While security stories often point to real threats, the narratives of leaders are as much about legitimating the power of rulers and the political and economic system that brought them to power. Derber and Magrass offer a penetrating examination of this phenomenon across history and types of societies. Their analysis reveals the great irony about security stories: they historically increase insecurity, imperiling citizens and nation. In the US today, the contradiction is especially acute, as security stories told by Trump divide US citizens against one another.

The book builds from an analysis of the extreme dangers of the prevailing security stories to a new paradigm of true security. The authors develop new approaches as our best hope for avoiding catastrophe and creating a socially just society based on real security for a nation and for humans across the planet.

Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. An internationally renowned scholar and public intellectual, he has written 21 books, translated into eight languages, and more than 100 articles, including op-eds for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, Truthout, and others. He appears frequently on national television and on radio programs, and is featured on hundreds of YouTube channels and other online sites.

Yale R. Magrass is Chancellor Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at the University of MassachusettsDartmouth. He is the author of six books and over 60 articles, and frequently makes public appearances and presentations.

Universalizing Resistance Series

Edited by Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar

Welcome to the Revolution

Universalizing Resistance for Social Democracy in Perilous Times (2017)

Charles Derber

Moving Beyond Fear

Upending the Security Tales in Capitalism, Fascism, and Democracy (2019)

Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass

Forthcoming:

Disrupting Narratives of Deservedness

Changing the Stories that Hold Economic and Racial Inequality in Place (2020)

Chuck Collins

Viva Latinx!

How a New Generation of Organized Power Can Win Elections and Transform Culture (2020)

Elisa Batista and Matt Nelson

For more information about this series, please visit:
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Moving Beyond Fear

Upending the Security Tales in Capitalism, Fascism, and Democracy

Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass

First published 2019

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