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Globalization and Its Discontents
The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms
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by Roger Burbach, Boris Kagarlitsky and Orlando Nunez
Pluto Press
Due/Published
January 1997, 192 pages,
paper
ISBN
0745311709
The decisive event of the late twentieth century has been the collapse of communism and the perceived triumph of capitalism. Western capitalism has come of age, and opposition to it has entered a period of decline. Those who hold the power enjoy such great wealth that the rest of the world's population is plunged into misery and poverty. This ground-breaking study falls into three parts: in the first, the authors look at how this situation has evolved in economic, political and social terms; in the second, they each look at how globalization has affected the US, the former USSR and the Third World. In the last section they propose a way forward and alternatives to the current, damaging system. |
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