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Brief historicization (from www.spiked-online.com) of the latest inter-governmental eco-policy deal, looking into the way certain branches of capital established the 'Green' agenda long before its discovery by counter-culture and adoption by mainstream moralism. The ideology of Scarcity is perpetual, but it took on this distinct institutional form during the late 20th century Supply Side ascendancy. Incidentally the implicit contradiction between an 'eco-imperialist' drive to keep the 'underdeveloped' world that way (as a 'non-capitalist' source of loot) and industrial capi
A majority of Royal Mail workers voted today for official acceptance of the stitch-up, sorry, settlement brokered by the Communication Workers Union, ending the recent cycle of strikes against the process leading to implementation of the EU directive on (selective - i.e.
From New Left Review (http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2678) some solid statistical evidence -- particularly strong on intersections of national, municipal, private and foreign capital -- for a point that might have seemed to border on truism but apparently is not gasped in mainstream 'China studies: the expansion of Chinese industrial capitalism in the last 20 years can is broadly comparable to the same process in Europe and America in the 19th century, and speculation over notions like 'the paradoxes of market socialism' is useless. (Anyone who doubted this s
OK this is hardly a scoop – even Fidel Castro has got his two contraband cents' worth in – but the basic Green agenda of making the poor pay (more) for their own reproduction could hardly be better illustrated than by exponential basic food price inflation caused by transfer of essential agriculture to biofuel production. Environmentalism and 'neoliberal' capital are not strange bedfellows: they were joined at the pinhead from birth, as their shared hallucination of Scarcity goes to show.
Indian capitalism leads the world in its integration of 'formal' and 'informal' economies, 'legal' and 'illegal' institutions, and (although this analytically anodyne Asia Times Online article forgets to say so) class-based policing of the nonexistent threshold. Especially interesting (though also undeveloped here) is the warning that a 'black' economy boom is inflationary, i.e.



