Capitalism

A Structural Genocide

von Garry Leech

194 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Bloomsbury 3PL
• ISBN: 9781780322001
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.04.2012
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC