Capitalism: A Structural Genocide - Paperback
Capitalism: A Structural Genocide - Paperback
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by Garry Leech (Author)
In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.
Drawing on a number of fascinating case studies from across the world - including the forced displacement of farmers in Mexico, farmer suicides in India, and deaths from preventable and treatable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the unsustainable exploitation of the planet's natural resources - Leech provocatively argues that global capitalism constitutes a form of genocide against the poor, particularly in the global South. Essential and eye-opening the book questions the legitimacy of a system that inevitably results in such large-scale human suffering, while going beyond mere critique to offer a more egalitarian, democratic and sustainable global alternative.Author Biography
Garry Leech is the director of the Centre for International Studies and a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Cape Breton University, Canada. He is the author of numerous books including The FARC: The Longest Insurgency (Zed Books, 2011) and Crude Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World (Dis)Order (Zed Books, 2006).
Garry Leech is the director of the Centre for International Studies and a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Cape Breton University, Canada. He is the author of numerous books including The FARC: The Longest Insurgency (Zed Books, 2011) and Crude Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World (Dis)Order (Zed Books, 2006).
