Trajectories of Declining and Destructive Capitalism
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Spanning three parts, Volume 40 of Research in Political Economy explores themes related to various “trajectories of declining and destructive capitalism” within the framework of contemporary Marxism. Social scientists from ten countries at various stages of their careers work to strengthen Marxism, applying its methods to the interpretation and, above all, the transformation of the world.
The chapters cover five continents and thirteen countries: Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Senegal, South Africa, Lebanon, Iran, India, Papua New Guinea, and Chile in the current period or very near past – plus two other countries, China and Cuba, in their more distant past preceding their respective socialist revolutions.
Providing a far-reaching and comprehensive overview of the damaging impact of capitalism across the globe, Trajectories of Declining and Destructive Capitalism confronts economic strategies at a pivotal moment in international politics.
Part I. Past, (Pre-Revolutionary) South
- Chapter 1. Republican China as a Unity of Opposites: An Analysis of the Essence of Semi–colonialism and Semi–Feudalism from 1911 to 1949; Maxence Poulin and Chen Zhang
- Chapter 2. China and Marxist Political Economy Confronting World Capitalism: Revisiting the “Social Nature” Debate of the 1930s-1940s; Dic Lo and Shaozhi Zhong
- Chapter 3. Gender and Class Liberation: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Yan’An Period (1937–1948); Ying Yue
- Chapter 4. A Brief Account of the Destruction of Pre–revolutionary Cuba by the Capitalist System; Rémy Herrera
- Part II. Past and Present, (European) North
- Chapter 5. The Archimedean Lever of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ordo–Liberalism and Social Market Economy; André Gilles Latournald
- Chapter 6. Along the British Road to Oligarchic Extremism: Deaths of Dispair and Moments of Danger; Thierry Madjid Labica
- Chapter 7. Mitterrandian Reformism, or the Great Transformation of Declining French Capitalism; Zhiming Long and Rémy Herrera
- Chapter 8. The Spanish Financial–Real Estate Capitalism and its Socio-Political Implications; Juan Pablo Mateo
- Part III. Present, South
- Chapter 9. Senegal: The Descent into the Abyss with the IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs; Demba Moussa Dembele
- Chapter 10. Post–Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making; Seeraj Mohamed and Ben Fine
- Chapter 11. A Broken History: Contemporary Lebanon (1958-2018) – How the Lure for Profit Destroyed a Nation; Frédéric Farah and Jérôme Maucourant
- Chapter 12. The Crisis of Legitimacy in Iran and the Ongoing Struggle for Freedom; Farhang Morady
- Chapter 13. The Ugly Underbelly of “Emergence:” Indian Capitalism in the Era of Globalization; Surajit Mazumdar
- Chapter 14. Papua New Guinea, in the Trap of Australian Imperialism; Poeura Tetoe and Rémy Herrera
- Chapter 15. The Long–lasting Battle of Chile; Marcelo Dias Carcanholo and Hugo Figueira de Souza Corrêa
Rémy Herrera is an economist and researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He supervises students in Ph.D. at the Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne. He regularly works with the Centre Europe-Tiers Monde (Geneva), supporting it in its advisory role to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations.