Sentences with phrase «global capitalism which»

KP Brehmer (1938 — 97) found new ways to visualise global capitalism which are of increasing relevance today.

The danger is that ESCRs will pay a high price for a crisis caused by the excesses of unbridled global capitalism which is allergic to any type of constraint or regulation.

However, the danger exists, as has happened on many occasions, that ESCR will pay a high price for a crisis caused by the excesses of unbridled global capitalism which is allergic to any type of constraint or regulation (1).

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But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

Jaded by experience and suspicious of narrative, we can not credit the secular prophecies of the past two centuries, which divined the end of history in a worker's state or the global triumph of democratic capitalism.

Therefore, the present context demands political ethics which would create conditions for us to get involved concretely to replace and revert the present global order propelled by global capitalism.

He contends, first, that liberation theology should free its social analysis from a preoccupation with global «dependent capitalism» and move toward more specific analyses of land reform and of other pressing needs which would help popular Christian movements be «more politically effective at a national level.»

So Greider believes that global capitalism, since it not only allows but actually causes the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, «will probably experience a series of terrible events — wrenching calamities which are economic, or social or environmental in nature — before common sense can prevail».9

It maligns the implicit universalism of our new global interdependence and denies the associative aspects of modern corporate capitalism (confusing it with the ideology of rugged individualism, which has not been a serious contender since 1929).

And in fact, we can learn a lesson from its defeat in terms of the strength of capitalism as a global system, which used all political and military means at its disposal to bring about the downfall of socialism.

The project of making the world a better place will be carried forward by global capitalism, which has an intrinsic momentum, along with the legal and bureaucratic apparatus of transnational institutions and structures, which have their own logic of expansion and colonization.

A progressive capitalism can only be forged with an enabling state that understands the global environment in which today's business leaders operate: where survival depends on profitability, where the world is awash with investment opportunities beyond the UK, and where arbitrary interventions in markets and constant changes in government policy discourage the long term investment Britain needs.

The Mexico - City - based conceptual artist Minerva Cuevas explores the ways in which seemingly banal items like fruit, chocolate, and water reflect the practices and ideology of global capitalism.

As European empires and economies expanded during early modernity, demand for goods like sugar and rum depended upon the exploitation of the Caribbean and its people, setting the stage for burgeoning global capitalism — the forces of which would eventually deliver Nikes to the streets of San Juan centuries later.

The connection between raw material and its consumption by the immaterial systems of global capitalism is the main theme running through Metal, a group show of five artists at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, which forms part of the AV Festival, a biennial programme of art, film and music in the northeast of England, now in its sixth iteration.

, in which he mailed Vladimir Lenin's text «Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism» to 100 global corporations as a donation for their corporate libraries.

Steyerl's work addresses global capitalism and militarism and the way in which images consolidate systems of control, while intimating that autonomous action and even disobedience are still possible.

The series transposes original fictionalised biographies that aim to dramatise instances in which disparate subjectivities appear, relate, contradict, and attempt to coexist, to form a picture of the fallout, failures and flatulence of global capitalism.

I care about nature - surroundings which are threatened by industrial development and the massive costs created by global warming and unbridled capitalism and twist the attitude of contemporary human beings and society.

The Mexico City — based conceptual artist Minerva Cuevas explores the ways in which seemingly banal items like fruit, chocolate, and water reflect the practices and ideology of global capitalism.

The curator of the 56th Venice Biennale, which opens May 9 — and which celebrates the 120th anniversary of the international art exhibition — announced his lineup of artists on Thursday, a highly diverse global group whose work often focuses on the tangled aftermath of colonialism and the effects of late capitalism.

As the director and curator of Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery she curated Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned culture - jamming group; Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions, which explored sports fanaticism as a significant form of cultural production; and Alien She, a traveling exhibition on the lasting impact of the global punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, among other exhibitions.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

But the obstacle is the real existing political economy of capitalism, and not the alleged technical problems cited by Cox, which are misleadingly used as ammunition against the feasibility of the imperative need to facilitate a rapid 100 % global renewable wind / solar energy transition.

At this rate of progress, the end of capitalism is further away than the heat death of the universe, which will render concerns about global warming irrelevant.

... the US senator, James Inhofe, a senator from Oklahoma, has threatened to indict climate scientists for conspiracy to lie to congress, and accused them of being part of a conspiracy to bring down global capitalism, to which I respond, scientists should be so organized!

The war in Iraq, the crackdown on civil liberties at home, and the president's strident nationalism combined to create a story line in which Big Oil, imperialism, and global capitalism threatened apocalypse well before Gore warned of a «day of reckoning.»

Which brings me to the question: do you agree with what I said in my comment at # 9, i.e. that a program of reforming capitalism in a social democratic / socialist direction will not succeed in addressing global warming unless it contains a substantial suite of policies specifically aimed at addressing that problem.

What you're proposing here, which I broadly agree with, is quite different from what you have said before, which was that it was not possible to address global warming under capitalism.