From Global Capitalism to Economic Justice
An Inquiry into the Elimination of Systemic Poverty, Violence and Environmental Destruction in the World Economy
Makhijani, Arjun
Date Written: 1992-03-25
Publisher: The Apex Press
Year Published: 1992
Pages: 190pp Price: $14.95 ISBN: 0-945257-41-4
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX24704
This book gives a devastating critique of global capitalism and the "end of history" thesis that, with the triumph of capitalism over communism, almost everyone will be better off. It also presents a vision which unites the benefits of individual and local initiative with measures leading to a more equitable distribution of wealth locally and globally.
Abstract:
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Publisher's Description:
Capitalims as a global system, which now encompasses virtually all people -- rich and poor -- around the world, is stringingly similar to South African apartheid" "liberal democracy" and relative material wealth for a minority and poverty and exploitation for the majority. Even the relatively well-off will pay a heavy price; in global environmental destruction we are all dispossessed.
This book gives a devastating critique on global capitalism and the "end of history" thesis that, with the triumph of capitalism over communism, almost everyone will be better off. It also presents a vision which unites the benefits of individual and local initiative with measures leading to a more equitable distribution of wealth locally and globally.
CONTENTS
Part I: THE WAR SYSTEM
Chapter 1: Invitation to History
Economic Characteristics of a War System
Chapter 2: The Colonial Dynamic of Capitalism
Third World Exploitation by Capitalism
Capitalist Government, Corporations, Third World Elites and Military Power
Chapter 3: Monetary Imperialism
Chapter 4: The Dynamic of Capitalism Withing Countries
The Capitalist Countries
The Third World Countries
Chapter 5: The Economic Activity of Women
Chapter 6: Capitalism and Democracy
The Third World Countries
The Capitalist Countries
Chapter 7: Centralized Socialism
Failures and Successes; Theory and Practice
The Collapse of Centralized Socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Chapter 8: Capitalism and Socialism: A Comparison
Inventiveness and Initiative
Summation
Part II: Economic Justice and the Peace System
Chapter 9: Preliminary Considerations
Chapter 10: Some Elements of Economic Democracy
Goverments and Markets
Restructuring and Large Corporations
Chapter 11: Restructuring the International System
Security of International Trade
The International Monetary System
Chapter 12: Restructuring Within Countries
Kerala, India
The United States
Harbingers of Hope: Internationalism at the Grassroots
Chapter 13: Money, Human Needs and the Environment
Monetized and Non-Monetized Work
Human Needs and the Environment
Chapter 14: Economic Culture
Appendix: Restructuring of the International Monetary System by Arjun Makhijani and Robert S. Browne
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