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Corona Crisis in the Mekong: From Extractive Imperialism to a New Bloom

29 Mar 2021

managed to do so by being well placed to capitalise on the process, able to assert It is important to recognise the people social and economic power over the means who have struggled the most during of violence and societal control, and the the current crisis are those that have production, circulation, and consumption been disempowered by their societies in of commodities. [...] Private might fetch the highest prices in the future, property claims allow fractions of capital advertising and marketing commodities, to appropriate most of the value created by providing security for warehouses and workers in the process of production and supermarkets, form filling in bureaucracies, circulation, through rent paid to landlords, and protecting the interests of ruling classes. [...] China was presented of neoclassical economics and its rejection as a new engine for growth, expected to of the labour theory of value of classical heroically drag the global economy out of political economy in favour of marginal the doldrums and stimulate a new wave of utility / productivity.106 According to the economic expansion geographically centred 21 value theory of the classical economist c. [...] us (the nature of capitalism, of state power, the role(s) of ideology, and the place of the In the wake of the corona crisis, progressives working class) in order to work intelligently, must refuse to settle for reforms that merely strategically and effectively.”133 blunt capitalism’s sharpest edges but fail to address its structural shortcomings, and The process of capital expansion and grasp ins. [...] The brutalities of regimes in different and diverse people and groups with the USSR and the PRC and the 1989 collapse a shared interest in transcending capitalism have left millions of people with material and building more rational societies in which interests in the necessary transition to a they have a genuine stake and enjoy the more rational form of social organisation but freedom to collecti.
Pages
58
Published in
Germany