• The first is the unity of capitalism's social functioning throughout all its development - from merchant and usury capital to industrial capitalism. (libcom.org)
  • the contradiction between the social character of production (socialized by capitalism) and the private, individual mode of appropriation. (libcom.org)
  • First, he sees the movements of capitalist society and of capital as an evolution of the social relations of production, and, secondly, he uses this basis in order to reject the various reactionary Utopias that flourished spontaneously in Russia at the end of the 19th century in response to the impetuous development of capitalism. (libcom.org)
  • 8] Lenin is very insistent in his arguments against the 'sentimental critique' of capitalism, and on his stress on capital's historical necessity and progressiveness, but his analysis of the process of socialization induced by capitalist development against the 'disruption' of the artisan.peasant economy (i.e. of capital in its mercantile' stage) remains unilateral and limited. (libcom.org)
  • Non-market socialism substitutes factor markets and often money with integrated economic planning and engineering or technical criteria based on calculation performed in-kind, thereby producing a different economic mechanism that functions according to different economic laws and dynamics than those of capitalism. (wikipedia.org)
  • A non-market socialist system seeks to eliminate the perceived inefficiencies, irrationalities, unpredictability, and crises that socialists traditionally associate with capital accumulation and the profit system in capitalism. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally socialist state led to socialism's widespread association with the Soviet economic model, several scholars posit that in practice, the model functioned as a form of state capitalism. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the process he butchers the tools Marx developed for understanding the dynamics of capitalism. (isj.org.uk)
  • Speaking endlessly of the "law of value" and the centrality of labour productivity, Moore nevertheless replaces the role Marx assigned human labour as the source of all value in the dynamics of capitalism with a notion that the energy and fertility of non-human nature is what drives economic growth and decline. (isj.org.uk)
  • Moore never makes an argument against exploited human labour as the source of all value in capitalism, and yet use values continue to creep into his account of both how capitalists accumulate and how their system booms and busts. (isj.org.uk)
  • Liberal privacy philosophy tends to ignore the political economy of privacy in capitalism that can mask socio-economic inequality and protect capital and the rich from public accountability. (mdpi.com)
  • Moreover, Marx placed great emphasis on the fact that natural resources under capitalism are treated as a "free gift of Nature to capital," and hence they do not enter directly into the production of value. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Despite their undeniable differences, Marx and Weber have much in common in their appraisals of modern capitalism: they share a vision of the capitalist economic system as a universe where "individuals are directed by abstractions," (Marx), where impersonal relations and objects [Versachlicht] replace personal relations of dependence, and where the accumulation of capital becomes an end in itself and, by and large, irrational. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Capitalism is the stage in the development of human society characterised by class monopoly of the means of production, with wage-labour and commodity-production. (worldsocialism.org)
  • Under capitalist conditions, this has already resulted in a knowledge economy, but the social, auto-regulatory possibilities it opens up are bound to be incompatible with the private appropriation characteristic of capitalism. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The Defense of Nature: Resisting the Financialization of the Earth and Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth detail this argument. (braveneweurope.com)
  • On the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx, Bernard D'Mello imagines a critical analysis of capital and capitalism as a global system. (mronline.org)
  • He practiced it with devastating effect in his critical analysis of capital and capitalism. (mronline.org)
  • So even as Marx's critique of capital and capitalism of the 1860s remains the most radical, inevitably, the economy and society have changed very significantly since then. (mronline.org)
  • while Max Weber (1864-1920), in Economy and Society (1922), dwelled on the phenomena of 'bureaucratization' in society and 'rational calculation' in human relations, considering them to be the essence of capitalism. (marcellomusto.org)
  • Understanding capitalism as a system of oppression allows us to explain the social process for the reproduction of life and the practices of domination. (capiremov.org)
  • This, therefore, led to the growth and accumulation of capital and the overproduction of goods that culminated, in 1929, in the greatest crisis in the history of capitalism and in the outbreak of wars, such as the Second World War, the Cold War, and many other conflicts between countries in the years that followed. (bvsalud.org)
  • 6 Bourgeois ideology and economics may wish coal could be turned into capital, but Marx showed that the only part of capitalist production that can increase the size of capital is exploited human labour. (isj.org.uk)
  • 2 It was this overall integrated approach that led Marx to define socialism in terms of a process of sustainable human development-understood as the necessity of maintaining the earth for future generations, coupled with the greatest development of human freedom and potential. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In so far as property relations enter into this picture, they relate not to the labour process, or what Marx called the appropriation of nature, but to the distribution process, or what Marx called the appropriation of the product. (newleftreview.org)
  • This class-based perspective inspires-as Marx clearly recognizes in the preface to Capital-his critique of bourgeois political economy. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Today, over a hundred years after the publication of the first volume of Capital, the interest in the ideas of Karl Marx is wider than ever. (worldsocialism.org)
  • In capitalist society, Marx said, wealth takes the form of an immense accumulation of commodities. (worldsocialism.org)
  • In Capital , Marx employed the abstract-deductive method, and what later came to be known as the procedure of "successive approximations," wherein the analysis moves, step by step, from the more abstract to the more concrete as simplifying assumptions are dropped at successive analytical stages. (mronline.org)
  • With the passage of 150 years since Capital , Volume I was first published, there is a significant additional empirical reality that calls for substantial modifications in the theoretical abstractions Marx undertook. (mronline.org)
  • Bringing Marxist perspectives into geography meant taking up themes on space, place making and environment and embedding them in a broad understanding of "the laws of motion of capital" as Marx understood them. (davidharvey.org)
  • Was Karl Marx truly against human rights? (cairn-int.info)
  • 3 Nevertheless, in a work on the young Marx published in 2007, David Leopold disagreed with the thesis, now accepted as dogma, that an irreconcilable conflict exists between Marx's political philosophy and the demands of human rights. (cairn-int.info)
  • It is not certain, however, that placing greater importance on context suffices to dispel the critique of human rights delivered by the young Marx, a critique which he never revisits and that his later writings radicalize. (cairn-int.info)
  • Although the Marxian denial of a normative conception of social justice is logical, it is hard to see how individual emancipation - the goal of communism, according to Marx - can be successful without demanding certain human rights. (cairn-int.info)
  • In this article, we will attempt to consider these two traditionally separate dimensions - historical and analytic - together by asking not only what Marx really thought about human rights, but also what he should have thought about them. (cairn-int.info)
  • Marx suggested that such completeness and perfection occurs at the intersection of the fulfillment of individual inclinations and abilities, and the improvement of the human condition (page 31). (blogspot.com)
  • Karl Marx was hailed at his death as a 'man of science' who had made two great discoveries in but one lifetime: 'the law of development of human history,' and 'the special law of motion governing the presentday capitalist mode of production' (Engels 1980a, p. 429). (iresearchnet.com)
  • Those arguments were constructed during the critical period of primitive accumulation, and as a result, Luxemburg considered the context for land and natural resource dispossession, migrant labor, and ethno-patriarchal rule. (cadtm.org)
  • In the process, Luxemburg described and also theorized how settler colonialism's primitive accumulation was not a once-off affliction. (cadtm.org)
  • The ruthless "primitive accumulation of violence" associated with state formation and the institutional "taming of violence" [1] necessary for successful state consolidation cannot be neglected. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • An appropriation differs from an entitlement in that funds allocated via an entitlement program are automatic, whereas an appropriation must be approved each time. (cesj.org)
  • The recovery of the ecological-materialist foundations of Karl Marx's thought, as embodied in his theory of metabolic rift, is redefining both Marxism and ecology in our time, reintegrating the critique of capital with critical natural science. (monthlyreview.org)
  • However, such perspectives on classical historical materialism, which prevailed during the previous century, are now giving way to a broader recognition that Marx's materialist conception of history is inextricably connected to the materialist conception of nature, encompassing not only the critique of political economy, but also the critical appropriation of the natural-scientific revolutions occurring in his day. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Indeed, it is in relation to the analysis of the systematic disruption of the Irish environment that Marx's ecological inquiries can be seen as taking on a concrete and developed form, encompassing the ecological as well as economic robbery that characterized the Irish colonial regime. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The rediscovery of the theory of alienation occurred thanks to György Lukács (1885-1971), who in History and Class Consciousness (1923) referred to certain passages in Marx's Capital (1867) - especially the section on 'commodity fetishism' [Der Fetischcharakter der Ware] - and introduced the term 'reification' [Verdinglichung, Versachlichung] to describe the phenomenon whereby labour activity confronts human beings as something objective and independent, dominating them through external autonomous laws. (marcellomusto.org)
  • And yet, without pretending to uncover a positive interpretation of rights adopted by the writer of Capital - which would require a serious distortion of his œuvre - we can nevertheless ask ourselves if this area of Marx's thought does not suffer from a certain logical weakness. (cairn-int.info)
  • Crawford Macpherson has argued that the liberal understanding of individuals as self-owners implies an understanding of rationality as industrious accumulation. (dukeupress.edu)
  • It is a fact that the cynical economic rationality makes care work invisible, performed mainly by women, but without enjoying any economic recognition and/or remuneration. (capiremov.org)
  • Super-exploitation was conceived, therefore, as a determining feature of the socio-economic configuration of the region. (cadtm.org)
  • Instead it was, and remains , a systematic way to arrange capitalist and non-capitalist relations to the benefit of the former, as a means of addressing internal contradictions within the accumulation process, albeit in a context of growing resistance. (cadtm.org)
  • Only relatively recently (e.g. since the 1970s) has mainstream Marxism recognized environmental issues or urbanization and urban social movements as having fundamental significance within the contradictions of capital. (davidharvey.org)
  • a world where all that one has seems to come from economic activity and not from the ecological processes which underlie and sustain all living existence. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The system in its narrow pursuit of profit-and on ever-greater scales-increasingly disrupts the fundamental ecological processes governing all life, as well as social reproduction. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In 1913, Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital offered a unique contribution to the Marxist theory of imperialism partly because she drew on primary accounts of Africa's super-exploitation, with nuanced attention to the social formation emerging in South Africa. (cadtm.org)
  • This theme occupies a decisive place in Capital and was essential in making the Marxist workers movement. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Most social anarchists I know (as Springer admits) find the Marxist critical exposé and theoretical account of how capital circulates and accumulates in space and time and through environmental transformations helpful. (davidharvey.org)
  • 1 Almost thirty years ago, Steven Lukes published an article titled "Can a Marxist believe in human rights? (cairn-int.info)
  • First, Luxemburg's Accumulation gives us the basic tools to work through why there is a "ceaseless flow of capital from one branch of production to another, and finally in the periodic and cyclical swings of reproduction between overproduction and crisis" (2003, 76). (cadtm.org)
  • Only by interpreting 'production' in the former sense can one separate 'distribution' from it, and when that is done, the 'department' of production does not contain the categories of historically determined forms of social economy, but categories that relate to the labour process in general: usually such empty banalities merely serve later to obscure historical and social conditions. (libcom.org)
  • The contradiction between wealth and value thus lies at the core of the accumulation process and is directly associated with the degradation and disruption of natural conditions. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Wealth is anything useful produced by human labour from materials found in nature. (worldsocialism.org)
  • Thus commodity production is an economic system where wealth is produced for sale, for the market. (worldsocialism.org)
  • As articles of wealth all commodities share two characteristics: they are useful and they are products of human labour. (worldsocialism.org)
  • However, this highly symbolic side of the mobilisation of international law hides the material continuities in the way in which international law is employed and mobilised to protect capital, capital accumulation, and wealth concentration in the green transition. (cam.ac.uk)
  • In contrast to traditional schools of economics which assume that scarcity is inevitable, binary economics views shared abundance - sustainable economic growth and the equitable distribution of future wealth and income throughout society - as achievable. (cesj.org)
  • In contrast, the value/exchange value of the capitalist commodity economy was derived from the exploitation of human labor power alone. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Yet, renewables lack many of the characteristics that have made fossil fuels so desirable in production processes, limiting their ability to expropriate human labor. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The reasons for this claim are inspired by the forms of the social composition of labor and the modalities of accumulation and exploitation which are today dominant. (bin-italia.org)
  • The method of abstraction helps isolate key aspects of the real world for an intensive investigation, for example, the nature of the capital-labor relation, in Capital , Volume I. On a lower level of abstraction, more aspects of the reality are taken into account, which may modify the tendencies discerned at a higher level of abstraction. (mronline.org)
  • The central tenet of binary economics is that there are two components to productive output and to income: (1) that generated by human labor, and (2) that generated by capital. (cesj.org)
  • Classical economic theory, on the other hand, regards all output and income to be derived from labor whose productivity is enhanced by capital. (cesj.org)
  • Diverse projects or proposals compete/coexist to organize the field of popular economic practices. (pekea-fr.org)
  • [1] In the process of colonisation , colonisers may impose their religion, language, economics, and other cultural practices. (explained.today)
  • Many comrades break out in cold sweat when they ponder a society in which both humans and animals alike are liberated from exploitation and oppression, since it would mean giving up their meat and cheese. (tierrechtsgruppe-zh.ch)
  • The ecology of the earth stabilized following the total freezing of the earth's surface 700 or 800 million years ago, stabilized following the great Permian extinction and will stabilize after the human industrial extinction to which we presently contribute. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Concepts such as 'strong sustainability', 'deep ecology', 'the Symbiocene' and 'the Chthulucene' illustrate this point and provide inspiration for rethinking the relationship between humans and nature. (europa.eu)
  • Given the fact that society is seen as an agglomeration of individuals whose nature is fixed, who do not combine together in a social production process and whose only link with each other is through the buying and selling of commodities, market phenomena must inevitably assume primary importance. (newleftreview.org)
  • the verifiable fact (Bourdieu) that certain processes have been turning into an economic sphere of reality, relatively autonomous of the processes of construction of political hegemony and social development. (pekea-fr.org)
  • La interpretación de los hallazgos se apoyó en los conceptos de habitus, campo, capital, y poder simbólico de Bourdieu. (bvsalud.org)
  • A interpretação dos achados foi apoiada pelos conceitos de habitus, campo, capital, e poder simbólico de Bourdieu. (bvsalud.org)
  • This addiction to fossils is not only affecting the climate, but is causing degenerative and lethal diseases to millions of peoples, flooding the planet with non-degradable waste, and exterminating hundreds of traditional cultures - by displacing healthy and ecological uses and customs - and it continues generating economic, social, political, environmental crisis aimed to capital expansion and accumulation. (oilwatch.org)
  • clergyman were economic collection as resources of crisis of own and federal citizen of organisations: several Internet. (geotrade-gmbh.com)
  • Appendix B recorded high levels of capital expenditures in the petroleum industry, but the expenditures were directed on acquisitions and mergers. (blogspot.com)
  • Minus capital buying capital, capital expenditures increased only by 5 percent from 01-02. (blogspot.com)
  • Legislators can hide government spending through the use of tax credits, tax subsidies, rebates, exemptions and other tax breaks to individuals and companies, rather than exposing these "tax expenditures" to the light of the appropriations process. (cesj.org)
  • This does not prevent one from seeing a certain evolution in his thought: whereas the Communist Manifesto (1848) is insistent on the historically progressive role of the bourgeoisie, Capital (1867) is more prone to denouncing the ignobility of the system. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • At a time when humanity faces profound and simultaneous ecological and economic crises, Moore proposes a kind of meta-theory that explains them as the outcomes of a single logic. (isj.org.uk)
  • It is this ecological contradiction within the capitalist value and accumulation process that serves to explain the system's tendency toward ecological crises proper, or the metabolic rift. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The new movement born from the protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle last year has placed new importance on reconstituting a Marxian critique of oppression and alienation that goes beyond targeting the personifications of capital. (libcom.org)
  • Nor was the determining factor found in the Pentagon's order of battle, the essays of neo-conservative ideologists with unsavory business partners, the balance sheet of a certain construction services company, visions of new American empires, fear of old economic competitors, loss of hegemony, dramatic dollar declines and euro ascents, or the ecstatic belligerence of the evangelical half-wits occupying all three branches of government. (blogspot.com)
  • As "a set of digital frameworks for social and marketplace interactions" (Kenny & Zysman, 2016), platforms replace and rematerialize markets, restructuring both economic exchange and patterns of information flow (Cohen, 2017). (itforchange.net)
  • A regime where the rapid financialization of nature is promoting a Great Expropriation of the global commons and the dispossession of humanity on a scale that exceeds all previous human history. (braveneweurope.com)
  • In a well-established capitalist system, this historical process would end up incorporating as a second nature the economic institutions as well as the dispositions required by capital accumulation. (pekea-fr.org)
  • That the problem lies deeper, in the very nature of capital as a social relation, is by no means self-evident. (libcom.org)
  • This briefing explores how to reframe the relationships between humans and nature. (europa.eu)
  • It examines how holistically understanding humans' deep interconnection with other life forms and ecosystems could lead to new motivations to protect nature and accelerate the societal transformation we need to live well within the limits of the planet. (europa.eu)
  • Specifically, we should move from viewing nature as a source of capital to respecting its inherent value. (europa.eu)
  • not only the product of labour but labour itself, i.e. human labour power, assumes the form of a commodity' [2] Lenin thus lays a sound foundation for his polemic with the Populists (the Narodniks). (libcom.org)
  • Instead of seeing production as a social process in which human beings combine together within a specific framework of social relations, vulgar economy sees production as an asocial or natural process in which inputs of labour, land and means of production, misleadingly described as capital, are mysteriously transformed into outputs of material and non-material goods. (newleftreview.org)
  • Since even the most superficial description of what are generally regarded as economic phenomena cannot escape the fact that things are produced, production must somehow or other be included within the scope of vulgar economy. (newleftreview.org)
  • However, it is clear that, on the contrary, economic life is strongly marked by phenomena of power, which is the domain of politics, and by the consideration of values, which are questions of ethics. (convivialism.org)
  • Like Sismondi, the Populists separate consumption from production claiming that production depends on natural laws, while consumption is determined by distribution, which in turn depends on human will. (libcom.org)
  • And vice versa, if production relations remain unexplained (for example if the process of production of the aggregate social capital is not understood) all arguments about consumption and distribution turn into banalities, or innocent, romantic wishes. (libcom.org)
  • Socialism is a political philosophy and movement encompassing a wide range of economic and social systems which are characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the same time, climate catastrophes, such as wildfires and hurricanes, disrupt the infrastructural momentum of fossil fuel economies, destabilizing the mechanisms of capital accumulation that derive from the production and consumption of these fuels. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Against this domestic and regional legislation, international law's role has mostly been framed in terms of environmental law and international human rights - as a protective force that is at the forefront of climate justice. (cam.ac.uk)
  • By focusing on the symbolic side of international law - say, its potential to name and shame certain actors into compliance with protective law - the very material effects, say of international trade and investment laws to protect capital accumulation rather than to protect the planet, remain hidden. (cam.ac.uk)
  • This framework brings out a protective function that "authoritarian accumulation" has fulfilled for more privileged-but not necessarily propertied-parts of the population. (dukeupress.edu)
  • These "assets" may be either productive and self-liquidating (as required under Capital Homesteading) or nonproductive (such as government or consumer debt paper). (cesj.org)
  • The new understandings of what work is are provoking an important change in the forms of subjectification-that is, the forms by which one becomes a subject-occurring within the productive process. (capiremov.org)
  • Capital reorganizes its new forces by further destroying the sense of the productive process as a unit. (capiremov.org)
  • Economic democracy proposes a sort of market socialism, with more democratic control of companies, currencies, investments, and natural resources. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moore proposes a method for understanding world history that shows how economic development is connected to "long-wave" ecological transformations. (isj.org.uk)
  • And anyway: Friedrich Engels already made fun of the "Herren Vegetarianer" who underestimated the importance of meat consumption in the history of human civilization and who were, at best, utopian socialists. (tierrechtsgruppe-zh.ch)
  • The size of the human population and the intensity of human economic and technological activities massively impact the Earth's biosphere and atmosphere. (europa.eu)
  • In fact, it can be used in an ethical and philosophical framework for designating that every human being is born already "world citizen", regardless of the nationality of origin. (bin-italia.org)
  • Within a brief space of time the USSR created modern science and education and on their basis an advanced economic model. (cprf.ru)
  • To create structured financial vehicles where they'll be able to control natural capital to accumulate on the basis of it. (braveneweurope.com)
  • Criteria for funding and transparency: the modalities of financing of minimum income must always be set out on the basis of economic viability studies, detailing where resources are obtained based on an estimate of its cost necessary. (bin-italia.org)
  • The basis for the predicament of petroleum capital had been created in the 1996-1998 period. (blogspot.com)
  • The legislative process by which funds (tax revenues or government borrowings) are allocated to government programs on a discretionary rather than a formula-determined basis. (cesj.org)
  • The system of ICFR is designed to mitigate risks to a reasonable level based on an ongoing process to identify key risks, to assess effectiveness of associated key controls, and to make any necessary adjustments. (gc.ca)
  • The demands quickly evolved into a condemnation of sectarianism as the foundation for the political system, as well as of the economic stagnation, unemployment and endemic corruption plaguing the country. (iemed.org)
  • The most basic conflict of our time, that of economic growth vs. ecological integrity, is driven by a common desire and demand to maintain the safety and comfort of our home. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The accumulation of capital, for example, is not seen as the result of capitalist greed or subjective time-preference, but as an expression of the immanent laws of capitalist development, which can be understood without any reference to the subjective characteristics of the individual capitalist. (newleftreview.org)
  • [8] It was not an unwarranted paradigm shift: the period saw civil rights and liberties curtailed or suspended, the norms of civil and international law (including due process and the right to legal representation) consigned to oblivion, torture normalized in the interests of "security," the specters of the concentration camp and its "Musselmans" (this time, frequently, literally Muslims) return. (stanford.edu)
  • In this view, human-material existence is simultaneously social-historical and natural-ecological. (monthlyreview.org)
  • d) The existence, in the past, of more human social or cultural forms destroyed by capitalist "progress. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • [4] In short, human rights are assumed to translate the ethos of "social atomism" - an ethos which is blind to the class divisions that are its very social conditions for existence. (cairn-int.info)
  • The failure to understand this is one of the consequences of being drawn deeply into the economic designs that seem to more directly impact the safety and comfort of our home. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Humans are deeply interconnected with other life forms and ecosystems. (europa.eu)
  • State visions centred on sustainability and the well-being of communities rather than (or as well as) economic growth have been on the rise, for instance, in Scotland, Iceland, New Zealand and India, and in Latin America. (chathamhouse.org)
  • From popular imagination to research activity, there is a palpable sense of a new turn in economic reorganization, impacting productivity, growth, jobs and skills in the future economy. (itforchange.net)
  • The Human Life Foundation, Inc. (humanlifereview.com)
  • This weaving of links is at the foundation, and is essential to the pursuit, of our human life. (convivialism.org)
  • GgsHope-in-Praxis come to life in the process of collaboratively decolonizing relations and regenerating relational spaces. (journaltocs.ac.uk)
  • While 2003 is a bad present and an unbearable future for the Iraqi people, for the unemployed workers, the dispossessed citizens of a once secular society, for women, it was bright, shining, day for the industry as profits recovered not just with this economic demolition, but because of this demolition. (blogspot.com)
  • The combination of market competition and the deployment of new technologies are an inescapable part of the process for accumulating profits. (capiremov.org)
  • The Marxian analysis of society and its development - historical, economic, political - will not die, nor go away, nor even lie down. (worldsocialism.org)
  • To be effective, the conviction that such a development is possible must be a collective construction, which is now in process. (pekea-fr.org)
  • Since the turn of the century, the Arab Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and written by Arab authors in direct contact with the region have highlighted the increasing inequality, lack of freedoms, difficulties for young people to join the labour market, and growing education and gender gaps. (iemed.org)
  • That seemed to take us far away from concrete economic consideration, especially away from the development issue . (convivialism.org)
  • First of all, standard economic theory does not take into consideration any power phenomenon, i.e. it both prohibits any Government intervention and denies that private entities exercise power over the free functioning of markets. (convivialism.org)
  • Capital is just proceeding to buy up ecosystems services. (braveneweurope.com)
  • Human threats to natural ecosystems and human societies have progressively risen, with devastating consequences over recent decades. (europa.eu)
  • In terms of binary economics, a barrier is anything in the "invisible architecture" of society's laws, or in the rules or customs of an institution, that inhibits or prevents full participation in the economic process for any or all otherwise qualified individuals. (cesj.org)
  • That is to reduce each human being to be an individual homo economicus , that is a machine searching to buy more for less or/and to sell less for more. (convivialism.org)
  • We have proposed the concept of Economy of Work due to its potential to conceptually frame action-oriented research as well as the design of strategies vis a vis the Economy of Capital as well as the Public Economy. (pekea-fr.org)
  • But the collapse of the Soviet and later the Russian economy under Mikhail Gorbachev and then Boris Yeltsin was an economic disaster that was otherwise unprecedented during times of peace. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Paying homage to Berta Cáceres , this process of construction is based on her strength and legacy to strengthen grassroots feminism and the proposal of a feminist economy . (capiremov.org)
  • In Sudan, in December 2018, rising bread and petrol prices sparked protests that culminated, five months later, in the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir, after 30 years in power, and the start of a transition process agreed with the army. (iemed.org)
  • For example, having relied upon British colonialist source material, at first in 1853, he thought of British colonialism as the "unconscious tool of history" in initiating-what he hoped would be-the economic transformation of India. (mronline.org)