The New Imperialism: Crisis and Contradictions in North/South Relations

This major intellectual exploration seeks to deepen our understanding of the way modern capitalism works. The author argues, in particular, that capitalism has always rested in part on the unremunerated labor of women, the non-sustainable extraction of natural resources, and the racist exploitation of the non-European periphery. He explores two fundamental questions: are there really any indications that the global economy is slowly entering a long-term structural crisis? And would any significant disruption open up opportunities for new popular movements to fundamentally challenge it?

Business & Money

Biel, Robert

Economics

Zed Books

<p>Robert Biel's <i>Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement</i> traces the history of Eurocentric and anti-Eurocentric currents in the Marxist-Leninist tradition, arguing that this distortion was key to the development and spread of revisionism, and ultimately to the failures of the communist project, in the twentieth century.</p>

Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Kersplebedeb Publishing

Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City

<p><div>Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions. This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today's global food crisis. By contributing more to feeding themselves, cities can allow breathing space for the rural sector to convert to more organic sustainable approaches. Biel's approach connects with current debates about agroecology and food sovereignty, asks key questions, and proposes lines of future research. He suggests that today's food insecurity - manifested in a regime of wildly fluctuating prices - reflects not just temporary stresses in the existing mode of production, but more profoundly the troubled process of generating a new one. He argues that the solution cannot be implemented at a merely technical or political level: the force of change can only be driven by the kind of social movements which are now daring to challenge the existing unsustainable order. Drawing on both his academic research and teaching, and 15 years' experience as a practicing urban farmer, Biel brings a unique interdisciplinary approach to this key global issue, creating a dialogue between the physical and social sciences</div></p>

UCL Press

<p>Within the context of the ecological crisis of the twenty-first century, the book integrates Marxism and systems theory to reveal finance capital and the ‘war on terror’ as complementary responses of a capitalism reduced to parasitising upon symptoms of chaos.</p>

The Entropy of Capitalism (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 39)

Brill Academic Pub

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The New Imperialism: Crisis and Contradictions in North/South Relations

The New Imperialism: Crisis and Contradictions in North/South Relations

Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement

Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City

Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City

The Entropy of Capitalism (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 39)