Imperialism and the development myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperialism and the development myth write by Sam King. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Imperialism and the development myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China and other Third World societies cannot 'catch up' with the rich countries. The contemporary world system is permanently dominated by a small group of rich countries who maintain a vice-like grip over the key parts of the labour process – over the most technologically sophisticated and complex labour. Globalisation of production since the 1980s means much more of the world’s work is now carried out in the poor countries, yet it is the rich, imperialist countries – through their domination of the labour process – that monopolise most of the benefits. Income levels in the First World remain five and ten times higher than Third World countries. The huge gulf between rich and poor worlds is getting bigger not smaller. Under capitalist imperialism, it is permanent. China has moved from being one of the poorest societies to a level now similar with other relatively developed Third World societies – like Mexico and Brazil. The dominant idea that it somehow threatens to ‘catch up’ economically, or overtake the rich countries paves the way for imperialist military and economic aggression against China. King’s meticulous study punctures the rising-China myth. His empirical and theoretical analysis shows that, as long as the world economy continues to be run for private profit, it can no longer produce new imperialist powers. Rather it will continue to reproduce the monopoly of the same rich countries generation after generation. The giant social divide between rich and poor countries cannot be overcome.
Myths of Empire
Myths of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myths of Empire write by Jack Snyder. This book was released on 2013-05-21. Myths of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes the traditional explanations offered by historians and political scientists.He tests three competing theories—realism, misperception, and domestic coalition politics—against five detailed case studies: early twentieth-century Germany, Japan in the interwar period, Great Britain in the Victorian era, the Soviet Union after World War II, and the United States during the Cold War. The resulting insights run counter to much that has been written about these apparently familiar instances of empire building.
The Mythology of Imperialism
The Mythology of Imperialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mythology of Imperialism write by Jonah Raskin. This book was released on 1973. The Mythology of Imperialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Myth of Development
The Myth of Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Development write by Oswaldo de Rivero B.. This book was released on 2001. The Myth of Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In order to prevent increasing social and political disorders, the author argues that many countries with primary production and explosive urban growth will have to abandon dreams of development to adopt a policy of national survival based on the search for water, food, and energy security - and the stabilization of their populations."--BOOK JACKET.
The Myth of Development
The Myth of Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Development write by Oswaldo De Rivero. This book was released on 2010-08-12. The Myth of Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The message of this courageous classic book is that the benefits of development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come about for most people. Nor are they going to. State-driven and market-led development models have both failed. Many countries, and their cities in particular, are collapsing into 'ungovernable chaotic entities' under the control of warlords and mafias. Oswaldo de Rivero argues that the 'wealth of nations' agenda must be replaced by a 'survival of nations' agenda. In order to prevent increasing human misery and political disorder, many countries must abandon dreams of development and adopt instead a policy of national survival based on providing basic water, food and energy, and stabilizing their populations. This much-anticipated new edition features both updated statistics and fresh material, including an essential new argument that the present global crisis is not simply economic but a much more profound crisis of 'the California Model': a crisis of our way of life and of our unsustainable global urban civilization.
