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About This Book
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 against the poor, particularly in the global South. 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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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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 The Truly Inconvenient Truth
- 6 Legitimizing the Illegitimate
- 7 The Socialist Alternative
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index