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the accumulation of capital jumps

One point is that there is a very clear geographical dimension to the recurrent cycles of material and financial expansion, but you can see this aspect only if you do not stay focused on one particular country—because then you see a totally different process. This is what most historians have been …

—p.358 Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait Fire at the Castle Gate (301) missing author
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capitalism not only survived but prospered

One of the major problems on the Left, but also on the Right, is to think that there is only one kind of capitalism that reproduces itself historically; whereas capitalism has transformed itself substantively—particularly on a global basis—in unexpected ways. For several centuries capitalism relied…

—p.358 Fire at the Castle Gate (301) missing author
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you cannot talk about capitalist enterprises in general

There are two different questions here: one concerns an appreciation of the flexibility of capitalist development and the other is the recurrence of patterns, and the extent to which these are determined by contingency or necessity. On the first, the adaptability of capitalism: this is partly relat…

—p.357 Fire at the Castle Gate (301) missing author
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the crisis has been transformed

In ‘Towards a Theory of Capitalist Crisis’ you describe a deep structural conflict within capitalism, in which you differentiate between crises that are caused by too high a rate of exploitation, which lead to a realization crisis because of insufficient effective demand, and those caused by too …

—p.349 Fire at the Castle Gate (301) missing author
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China's role in reducing global inequality

First of all, we should not exaggerate the extent to which China has broken the pattern. The level of per capita income in China was so low—and still is low, compared to the wealthy countries—that even major advances need to be qualified. China has doubled its position relative to the rich world, b…

—p.345 Fire at the Castle Gate (301) missing author