Capitalism: A Structural Genocide

di Garry Leech (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2012

In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence. Drawing on a number of fascinating case studies from across the world - including the forced displacement of farmers in Mexico, farmer suicides in India, and deaths from preventable and treatable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the unsustainable exploitation of the planet's natural resources - Leech provocatively argues that global capitalism constitutes a form of genocide against the poor, particularly in the global South. Essential and eye-opening the book questions the legitimacy of a system that inevitably results in such large-scale human suffering, while going beyond mere critique to offer a more egalitarian, democratic and sustainable global alternative.

• Autore: Garry Leech
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 192 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 254 gr.
• EAN: 9781780321998

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