Resumen del libro

Reseña: In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence. Drawing on a number of fascinating case studies from across the world - including the forced displacement of farmers in Mexico, farmer suicides in India, and deaths from preventable and treatable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the unsustainable exploitation of the planet's natural resources - Leech provocatively argues that global capitalism constitutes a form of genocide, and that this genocide is inherent in any social system that adheres to the logic of capital. Essential and eye-opening the book questions the legitimacy of a system that inevitably results in such large-scale human suffering, while going beyond mere critique to offer a more egalitarian, democratic and sustainable global alternative.

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indice: Introduction 1. What is Structural Genocide? 2. The Logic of Capital 3. Structural Genocide: The Cases of Mexico and India 4. Structural Genocide: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa 5. Structural Genocide: The Truly Inconvenient Truth 6. Legitimizing the Illegitimate 7. The Socialist Alternative Conclusion

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