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01 Nov 2010
TL;DR: Foster, Clark, and York as mentioned in this paper argue that the source of our ecological crisis lies in the paradox of wealth in capitalist society, which expands individual riches at the expense of public wealth, including the wealth of nature.
Abstract: Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed for a fateful collision--if we don't alter course. In The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth environmental sociologists John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York offer a radical assessment of both the problem and the solution. They argue that the source of our ecological crisis lies in the paradox of wealth in capitalist society, which expands individual riches at the expense of public wealth, including the wealth of nature. In the process, a huge ecological rift is driven between human beings and nature, undermining the conditions of sustainable existence: a rift in the metabolic relation between humanity and nature that is irreparable within capitalist society, since integral to its very laws of motion. Critically examining the sanguine arguments of mainstream economists and technologists, Foster, Clark, and York insist instead that fundamental changes in social relations must occur if the ecological (and social) problems presently facing us are to be transcended. Their analysis relies on the development of a deep dialectical naturalism concerned with issues of ecology and evolution and their interaction with the economy. Importantly, they offer reasons for revolutionary hope in moving beyond the regime of capital and toward a society of sustainable human development.
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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In 1989 and 1991, the collapse of the Soviet bloc brought down the established political system in a number of countries as mentioned in this paper, and all previously communist-controlled countries inherited both an economic system that no longer functioned properly and a political struggle for power.
Abstract: BETWEEN 1989 AND 1991 the collapse of the Soviet bloc brought down the established political system in a number of countries.' With the rapid decline of the communist party's power throughout the region, and particularly following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it proved impossible to maintain an economic system based on hierarchical subordination, predominant state ownership, and a command-rationing allocation mechanism.2 All previously communist-controlled countries therefore inherited both an economic system that no longer functioned properly and a political struggle for power. The central problem has proved to be one of controlling inflation. In theory, liberalization and privatization can take place without price stabilization, but in practice this combination has not proved effective. At least in these countries, it has not proved possible to balance the budget or control monetary emission without large cuts in subsidies and
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TL;DR: For a review of spaces of global capitalism, see as mentioned in this paper, where the authors present a survey of spaces and their relationship with global capitalism in terms of uneven, uneven, and combined development.
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TL;DR: The inverted Weberian theory as discussed by the authors argued with particular rigour by H. M. Tawney and others, the gist of which may be said to be that economic change can affect religious teaching, but also religious teaching can in tum intensify and enhance the spirit of capitalism.
Abstract: Ever since the publication in 1905 of Max Weber's study Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus, there has been lively controversy concerning the connection between religious belief and economic activity. Three main .categories of opinion have emerged from this debate: (1) the theory advocated by Weber, which has found numerous supporters aware in varying degrees of their debt to Weber's mode of thought: viz., that Protestantism, especially in its Calvinistic form, created a climate in which the ‘spirit of capitalism’ could flourish; (2) what may be called the inverted Weberian theory, argued with particular rigour by H. M. Robertson, that the spirit of capitalism is not the creator but the creation of businessmen; and finally (3) an intermediate theory, presented by Professor R. H. Tawney and others, the gist of which may be said to be that economic change tan affect religious teaching, but that also religious teaching can in tum intensify and enhance the spirit of capitalism. O...
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