Juin 2007 TROPLOIN NewsLetter N°5


IN FOR A STORM : A CRISIS ON THE WAY
 
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Introduction

Capitalism, past and present... The extent to which capitalism makes the world go round... “Contradiction is no impossibility” (Marx)... Capitalism is not a one-way street...1929: the problem and its solution... After 1968: the half-solution... What globalisation was aiming at...What the new international division of labour has not solved... A crash course in the sociology of the bourgeoisie... Proletarianisation of the middle class... The workshops of the world... Living on credit... Wages, deflation and profits... Capital as cannibal... “The time is out of joint” (Hamlet)... The human factor... Soft globalisation versus hard archaism... Relative overpopulation... Migrations out of control... The worst of all possible worlds... Ecology: an inconvenient truth... Is neo-liberalism already over ?..... Wars... The clash... Before we call it a day... A crisis on the way... For a little further reading

also is an idea about the world. Better be conscious of one’s point of view, and make this vision explicit and as well-founded as can be.

Whither the World ? : our 2002 text was more retrospective, the present one wishes to be prospective. First, let’s go back in time a little.