James Wilt

Drinking Up the Revolution: How to Smash Big Alcohol and Reclaim Working-Class Joy -- James Wilt, Paperback

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James Wilt exposes the links between the global alcohol industry and capitalism.

In Drinking Up the Revolution, James Wilt shows us why alcohol policy should be at the heart of any socialist movement.

Many people are drinking more now than ever before, as already massive multinationals are consolidating and new online delivery services are booming in an increasingly deregulated market. At the same time, public health experts are sounding the alarm about the catastrophic health and social impacts of rising alcohol use, with over three million people dying ever year due to alcohol-related harms.

Exposing the links between the alcohol industry and capitalism, colonialism and environmental destruction, Wilt demonstrates the failure of both prohibition and deregulation, and instead focuses on those who profit from alcohol's sale and downplay its impacts: producers, retailers, and governments.

Rejecting both the alcohol industry's moralizing against individual "problem drinkers" and the sober politics of "straight-edge" and wellness lifestyle trends, Drinking Up the Revolution is not another call for prohibition or more governmental control, but is instead a cry to take back alcohol for the people, and make it safe and enjoyable for all those who want to use it.

Author: James Wilt
Publisher: Repeater
Published: 07/12/2022
Pages: 345
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781913462765

About the Author
James Wilt (he/him) is a freelance journalist, PhD student, and the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk (Between the Lines Books, 2020). His writing has appeared in many publications including The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Vice, Canadian Dimension, Briarpatch, The Narwhal, Passage, National Observer, CBC Calgary, Alberta Oil, Ricochet, and Rabble.

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Alcohol, Alcoholic beverages - Social aspects, Communism/ Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory, James Wilt, Paperback, Political Ideologies, Political Science, Politics / Current Events, Repeater, Self-Help, Substance Abuse & Addictions

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