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BRICS - An anti-capitalist critique (Paperback)
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BRICS - An anti-capitalist critique (Paperback)
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Nearly all the discussions to date about BRICS have been
uncritical. Many well-known analysts have greeted it with outright
enthusiasm, on the mistaken perception that it represents a new
power bloc that will democratise the world order or offer an
emerging economic market for financial investors. A recent New York
Times editorial claimed, for instance, that the BRICS countries
“aimed at challenging the American-led global economic order”,
while the Mail & Guardian pronounced, “South Africa is the
nation that stands to benefit the most”. This volume aims to fill a
gap in studies of BRICS. It offers a critical analysis of the rise
of the BRICS countries’ economies within the framework of a global
capitalism that is increasingly predatory, exclusionary and
unequal, no more so than in the BRICS countries themselves. The
authors reflect upon the rise of a Global South (and East), which
is sometimes cooperative with and sometimes antagonistic to the
traditional powers of the US, Europe and Japan. Most importantly,
BRICS’s rise occurs in the context of the expansion of capitalism
in the 21st century, and also in the midst of world capitalism’s
worst crisis since the 1930s. The point of this analysis is,
firstly, to promote debate between social movements, organised
labour and other activists in the struggle for social justice and
for alternatives to the current international capitalist order.
BRICS is a new area of concern for many. The second goal is to
generate critical debate on contemporary themes and theoretical
discussions. The book will be required reading for those who wish
to have an alternative perspective on this Global south
partnership.
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