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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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Kondratieff cycles

it has long been argued that there are so-called 'long waves' or 'Kondratieff cycles' lasting on average fifty years in capitalist developmental history based upon tehcnological innovations

he thinks the theory is incomplete (doesn't account for cultural/organisational shifts?)

—p.96 Creative Destruction on the Land (84) by David Harvey
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inter alia

The state becomes involved, inter alia, when it comes to immigration and labour laws

—p.59 Capital Goes to Work (58) by David Harvey
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primitive accumulation

Marx's account of so-called 'primitive accumulation' may be overdramatised and oversimpified but its essential truth is undeniable. Somehow or other the mass of a population has been put in a position of having to work for capital in order to live.

—p.58 Capital Goes to Work (58) by David Harvey
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Marxian

the class struggle between capital and labour typically privileged in Marxian theory

—p.56 Capital Assembled (40) by David Harvey
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