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LA Theses
http://endnotes.org.uk/other_texts/en/endnotes-la-thesesDate Written: 2015-12-01 Publisher: endnotes.org.uk Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20206 Notes on class struggles, conflicts and unification. Abstract: - Excerpt: We live in an era of long-unfolding social crisis, which is fundamentally the crisis of societies organized in a capitalist mode. Indeed, the employment relations that govern production and consumption in capitalist societies are breaking down. The result has been the reappearance of a structural condition that Marx called surplus capital alongside surplus population. Technological transformations continue to take place in spite of economic stagnation, giving rise to a situation in which there are too few jobs for too many people. Meanwhile, huge pools of money scour the earth for profits, leading to periodic expansions of bubbles that burst in massive blowouts. Rising job insecurity and inequality are symptoms of the increasing impossibility of this world as such. |