Beyond the Systemic Crisis and Capital-Led Chaos: Theoretical and Applied Studies

ISBN-13: 9782875741837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 260 str.

Remy Herrera;Wim Dierckxsens;Paulo Nakatani

Opis

The current crisis is the expression of the struggle of a dominant fictitious capital over real capital to redistribute the global mass of wealth. It is translated into an expansion of assets in financial markets sustained by an inverted pyramid of credits without being backed by a major growth of the real economy, which is increasingly global in scope. The conversion of fictitious capital into real capital is a geopolitical item to understand acquisitions of land in the South to produce agro-fuels, for example. Conversion from fictitious to real capital also happens, the other way round, when military expenditures are financed by more public debt, as is the case for the US today. Financial capital engages in a warlike strategy to establish a global order under its hegemony, without borders and citizens. Employment, social-economic security and political stability will be a worldwide problem. The greatest fear of the capital is that the Eurozone will become a part of the Euro-Asian Continental Bloc. This definitely means a possible military conflict of the US with Russia and China. This crisis is one of the Western civilization itself."

Spis treści

Contents: Wim Dierckxsens: The Struggle for a New Civilization: Challenges and Threats - Paulo Campanario: A Critique of the Hegemonic Ideology and its Roots - Antonio Jarquín/Wim Dierckxsens: The Great Depression of the 21st Century and the Military-Industrial Complex - Paulo Campanario/Antonio Jarquín/Wim Dierckxsens: Is a 'New Green Deal' an Alternative? - Reinaldo A. Carcanholo/Mauricio de Souza Sabadini: Fictitious Capital and Fictitious Profit - Reinaldo A. Carcanholo: The Great Depression of the 21st Century and Fictitious Wealth: On the Theoretical Categories of Fictitious Capital and Fictitious Profit - Wim Dierckxsens/Andrés Piqueras: The Dialectical Unity of Capital and Non-Capital: The Role of Overpopulation in Popular Rebellion Today - Andrés Piqueras: Notes on the Class Struggle in Late Capitalism - Tony Andreani/Rémy Herrera: Financial System and 'Chinese-Style Market Socialism' - Rémy Herrera: Some Problems (and Paradoxes) Related to the Internationalization of China's Economy.

O autorze

Rémy Herrera is Researcher at the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) and supervises PhD theses at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has been a consultant at the OECD and the World Bank. He is currently Executive Secretary of the World Forum of Alternatives.
Wim Dierckxsens is Coordinator of the International Observatory of Crisis. He is also a senior researcher at the Departamento de Investigación Oeucumenico; former administrator for the United Nations; and professor at the National University of Honduras and the National University of Costa Rica.
Paulo Nakatani is Professor at the Department of Economics, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), in Vitoria, Brazil. He has been President of the Brazilian Society of Political Economy (SEP, Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Politica) and Director of the academic review of the SEP.