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System In Crisis : The Dynamics of Free Market Capitalism, Paperback / softback Book

System In Crisis : The Dynamics of Free Market Capitalism Paperback / softback

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In the late 1960s the operating world capitalist system hit a snag, exposing cracks that went to its very foundations.

At first, this crisis was viewed as part of a normal business cycle of capital accumulation in which markets become saturated.

The reaction created a mass of unemployed workers, reduced purchasing power and consumption capacity which initiated a further downward cycle of disinvestment and recession.

The efforts to revitalize the capitalist system included the restructuring of world production, new information-based technologies designed to revolutionize the structure of production, a new mode of capital accumulation and regulatory regime, and a program of policy reforms and structural adjustments. By discussing the very cracks that neo-liberalism tries to disguise, James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer explain how these reactions attempt to prop up a system that continues to fail the global community.

System in Crisis also examines the nature of the class divisions and the political repercussions of the anti-globalization movement.

This analysis provides readers with a more general perspective on the broader anti-globalization movement and the possibilities for unifying the diverse forces of resistance and opposition to neo-liberalism, capitalism and imperialism-and the prospects for an alternative, more human, socialist form of development.

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