Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (46 page)

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Numbers in
italics
indicate Figures.

2001: A Space Odyssey
(film)
271

Abu Ghraib, Iraq
202

acid deposition
255
,
256

advertising
50
,
121
,
140
,
141
,
187
,
197
,
236
,
237
,
275
,
276

Aeschylus
291

Afghanistan
202
,
290

Africa

and global financial crisis
170

growth
232

indigenous population and property rights
39

labour
107
,
108
,
174

‘land grabs’
39
,
58
,
77
,
252

population growth
230

Agamben, Giorgio
283
–
4

agglomeration
149
,
150

economies
149

aggregate demand
20
,
80
,
81
,
104
,
173

aggregate effective demand
235

agribusiness
95
,
133
,
136
,
206
,
247
,
258

agriculture
ix
,
39
,
61
,
104
,
113
,
117
,
148
,
229
,
239
,
257
–
8
,
261

Alabama
148

Algerian War (1954–62)
288
,
290

alienation
57
,
69
,
125
,
126
,
128
,
129
,
130
,
198
,
213
,
214
,
215
,
263
,
266
–
70
,
272
,
275
–
6
,
279
–
80
,
281
,
286
,
287

Allende, Salvador
201

Althusser, Louis
286

Amazon
131
,
132

Americas

colonisation of
229

indigenous

populations
283

Amnesty International
202

anti-capitalist movements
11
,
14
,
65
,
110
,
111
,
162

anti-capitalist struggle
14
,
110
,
145
,
193
,
269
,
294

anti-globalisation
125

anti-terrorism
xiii

apartheid
169
,
202
,
203

Apple
84
,
123
,
131

apprenticeships
117

Arab Spring movement
280

Arbenz, Jacobo
201

Argentina
59
,
107
,
152
,
160
,
232

Aristotelianism
283
,
289

Aristotle
1
,
4
,
200
,
215

arms races
93

arms traffickers
54

Arrighi, Giovanni
136

Adam Smith in Beijing
142

Arthur, Brian:
The Nature of Technology
89
,
95
–
9
,
101
–
4
,
110

artificial intelligence
xii
,
104
,
108
,
120
,
139
,
188
,
208
,
295

Asia

‘land grabs’
58

urbanisation
254

assembly lines
119

asset values

and the credit system
83

defined
240

devalued
257

housing market
19
,
20
,
21
,
58
,
133

and predatory lending
133

property
76

recovery of
234

speculation
83
,
101
,
179

associationism
281

AT&T
131

austerity
xi
,
84
,
177
,
191
,
223

Australia
152

autodidacts
183

automation
xii
,
103
,
105
,
106
,
108
,
138
,
208
,
215
,
295

Babbage, Charles
119

Bangkok riots, Thailand (1968)
x

Bangladesh

dismantlement of old ships
250

factories
129
,
174
,
292

industrialisation
123

labour
108
,
123
,
129

protests against unsafe labour conditions
280

textile mill tragedies
249

Bank of England
45
,
46

banking

bonuses
164

electronic
92
,
100
,
277

excessive charges
84

interbank lending
233

and monopoly power
143

national banks supplant local banking in Britain and France
158

net transfers between banks
28

power of bankers
75

private banks
233

profits
54

regional banks
158

shell games
54
–
5

systematic banking malfeasance
54
,
61

Baran, Paul and Sweezy, Paul:

Monopoly Capitalism
136

Barcelona
141
,
160

barrios pobres
ix

barter
24
,
25
,
29

Battersea Power Station, London
255

Battle of Algiers, The
(film)
288

Bavaria, Germany
143
,
150

Becker, Gary
186

Bernanke, Ben
47

Bhutan
171

billionaires
xi
,
165
,
169
,
170

biodiversity
246
,
254
,
255
,
260

biofuels
3

biomedical engineering
xii

Birmingham
149

Bitcoin
36
,
109

Black Panthers
291

Blade Runner
(film)
271

Blankfein, Lloyd
239
–
40

Bohr, Niels
70

Bolivia
257
,
260
,
284

bondholders
xii
,
32
,
51
,
152
,
158
,
223
,
240
,
244
,
245

bonuses
54
,
77
,
164
,
178

Bourdieu, Pierre
186
,
187

bourgeois morality
195

bourgeois reformism
167
,
211

‘Brady Bonds’
240

Braudel, Fernand
193

Braverman, Harry:
Labor and

Monopoly Capital
119

Brazil

a BRIC country
170
,
228

coffee growers
257

poverty grants
107

unrest in (2013)
171
,
243
,
293

Brecht, Bertolt
265
,
293

Bretton Woods (1944)
46

brewing trade
138

BRIC countries
10
,
170
,
174
,
228

Britain

alliance between state and London merchant capitalists
44
–
5

banking
158

enclosure movement
58

lends to United States (nineteenth century)
153

suppression of Mau Mau
291

surpluses of capital and labour sent to colonies
152
–
3

welfare state
165

see also
United Kingdom

British Empire
115
,
174

British Museum Library, London
4

British Petroleum (BP)
61
,
128

Buffett, Peter
211
–
12
,
245
,
283
,
285

Buffett, Warren
211

bureaucracy
121
–
2
,
165
,
203
,
251

Bush, George, Jr
201
,
202

Cabet, Étienne
183

Cabral, Amilcar
291

cadastral mapping
41

Cadbury
18

Cairo uprising (2011)
99

Calhoun, Craig
178

California
29
,
196
,
254

Canada
152

Cape Canaveral, Florida
196

capital

abolition of monopolisable skills
119
–
20

aim of
92
,
96
–
7
,
232

alternatives to
36
,
69
,
89
,
162

annihilation of space through time
138
,
147
,
178

capital-labour contradiction
65
,
66
,
68
–
9

and capitalism
7
,
57
,
68
,
115
,
166
,
218

centralisation of
135
,
142

circulation of
5
,
7
,
8
,
53
,
63
,
67
,
73
,
74
,
75
,
79
,
88
,
99
,
147
,
168
,
172
,
177
,
234
,
247
,
251
,
276

commodity
74
,
81

control over labour
102
–
3
,
116
–
17
,
166
,
171
–
2
,
274
,
291
–
2

creation of
57

cultural
186

destruction of
154
,
196
,
233
–
4

and division of labour
112

economic engine of
8
,
10
,
97
,
168
,
172
,
200
,
253
,
265
,
268

evolution of
54
,
151
,
171
,
270

exploitation by
156
,
195

fictitious
32
–
3
,
34
,
76
,
101
,
110
–
11
,
239
–
42

fixed
75
–
8
,
155
,
234

importance of uneven geographical development to
161

inequality foundational for
171
–
2

investment in fixed capital
75

innovations
4

legal-illegal duality
72

limitless growth of
37

new form of
4
,
14

parasitic forms of
245

power of
xii
,
36
,
47

private capital accumulation
23

privatisation of
61

process-thing duality
70
–
78