<em>Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation</em> offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy. The exploitation of Africaβs rich resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world powers to sustain their authority ov
The Accumulation of Capital in Southern Africa
β Scribed by Bond, Patrick & Chitonge, Horman & Hopfmann, Arndt
- Publisher
- Regional office of the Rosa Luxemburg foundation
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 224
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
PARTONE......Page 18
Excerpts fromThe Accumulation of Capital......Page 20
The Accumulation of Capitalin Historical Perspective......Page 30
βNo eyes, no interest, noframe of referenceβ......Page 39
Unlocking the present?......Page 59
Enclosures, commonsand the βoutsideβ......Page 76
PARTTWO......Page 90
Imperialism and newcommodity forms......Page 92
South African subimperialaccumulation......Page 103
Two economies?......Page 120
New faces of privatisation......Page 132
Black EconomicEmpowerment......Page 140
PARTTHREE......Page 150
Property for people,not for profit......Page 152
Challenges for theregional labour movement......Page 171
The ShackdwellersMovement of Durban......Page 176
Against thecommodificationof education......Page 179
Challenging municipalpolicies and global capital......Page 186
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This book remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature. While many today believe there is no alternative to global capitalism, this book is a timely and forceful statement of an opposing view.
Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earli