Charles Derber is an American academic, author and political activist.
19 Facts About Charles Derber
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Charles Derber's work focuses on capitalism, globalization, corporate power, democracy, populism, neo-fascism, American militarism, the climate crisis, cultural individualism, and the new peace and global justice movements.
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Charles Derber was born in Washington DC in January 1944, the son of New Deal economist Milton Charles Derber.
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Charles Derber read the works of Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse while in jail for protesting the Vietnam War.
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Charles Derber attended Yale University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 and was a member of Manuscript Society.
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Charles Derber then studied at the University of Chicago where he earned a PhD in sociology.
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Charles Derber began teaching at Brandeis University in 1970 and switched to Boston College in 1980.
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Charles Derber became a professor in 1991 and has been teaching in the graduate program on social economy and social justice ever since.
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Charles Derber has published 28 books, translated into 14 languages, with several best-selling works.
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Charles Derber is best known to the general public for his analysis of corporate power and globalization.
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Charles Derber's interests evolved to focus on ideology and political morality, as well as the new dynamics of global capitalism and of movements such as the Occupy Movement that challenge it.
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In 2010, Charles Derber published Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy, which argues that climate change is a symptom of a "dysfunctional lifestyle" that can be solved only through a transformation of American capitalism and neo-liberal globalization.
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Charles Derber asserts that society is seeing a third wave environmentalism that is inseparable from the broader social and economic justice movements.
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In 2013, Charles Derber published his book Sociopathic Society with Paradigm Publishers.
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Charles Derber argues that today's hyper-individualistic version of the American Dream is the "master cultural script" of US capitalism and helps fuel these potential perils in the US today.
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In 2017, Charles Derber published Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice.
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In conjunction with that book, Charles Derber has brought together leaders of unions and many social justice movements to examine what those groups should do next to achieve their political goals.
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In that series, Charles Derber has co-edited some books about and with Noam Chomsky, funded by the progressive Wallace Global Fund, including Internationalism or Extinction in 2019 and Chomsky For Activists in 2020.
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Charles Derber's book published in July 2023 is Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Is Fueling Our Extinction - and What We Can Do About It with Suren Moodliar; the book analyzes corporate capitalism, climate change, and militarism as a deadly "triangle of extinction" and offers an approach to combating it.