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Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism?

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  • Author: [[Samir Amin and Victoria Bawtree]]
  • ASIN: B005HPPE54
  • Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005HPPE54
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development of the struggles in the peasant societies of the South (almost half of humankind) and the responses to these struggles will largely determine the capacity or otherwise of the workers and the peoples to progress on the road to constructing an authentic civilisation, — location: 101 ^ref-31973

The energy crisis is the product of the will of oligopolies and a collective imperialism to secure a monopoly of access to the planet's natural resources, whether these be scarce or not, in such a way as to appropriate the imperialist rent. — location: 108 ^ref-38507

The current crisis is therefore neither a financial crisis nor the sum of multiple systemic crises, but the crisis of the imperialist capitalism of oligopolies whose exclusive and supreme power risks being questioned once more by the struggles of the entire popular classes — location: 113 ^ref-34573

This crisis is also simultaneously a crisis of US hegemony. — location: 115 ^ref-30281

following phenomena are inextricably linked to one another: the capitalism of oligopolies, the political power of oligarchies, barbarous globalisation, financialisation, US hegemony, the militarisation of the way globalisation is operated in the service of oligopolies, the decline of democracy, the plundering of the planet's resources and the abandoning of development for the South. — location: 116 ^ref-42771

of the long crisis of an ageing capitalism, begun in the 1970s. — location: 125 ^ref-33477

the belle époque, announced as the end of history by the ideologues of this period, ended in the First World War, as only Lenin had predicted. — location: 134 ^ref-30058