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Capitalism: A Structural Genocide

By Garry Leech

Book information

Publisher
Zed books
Year
2012
ISBN
1780322003, 9781780322001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1266651 bytes)
Pages
192\194
Time added
2015-01-02 18:02:01

Description

In the wake of the global financial crisis, and savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.Drawing on a number of case studies from across the world - including the displacement of farmers in Mexico, farmer suicides in India, and deaths from preventable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa - Leech argues that global capitalism constitutes a form of genocide, and that this genocide is inherent in any social system that adheres to the logic of capital.Essential and eye-opening, the book questions the legitimacy of a system that inevitably results in large-scale human suffering, while offering a more egalitarian, democratic, and sustainable global alternative.

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