Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (47 page)

profitability of
184
,
191
–
2

purpose of
92

realisation of
88
,
173
,
192
,
212
,
231
,
235
,
242
,
268
,
273

relation to nature
246
–
63

reproduction of
4
,
47
,
55
,
63
,
64
,
88
,
97
,
108
,
130
,
146
,
161
,
168
,
171
,
172
,
180
,
181
,
182
,
189
,
194
,
219
,
233
,
252

spatiality of
99

and surplus value
63

surpluses of
151
,
152
,
153

temporality of
99

tension between fixed and circulating capital
75
–
8
,
88
,
89

turnover time of
73
,
99
,
147

and wage rates
173

capital accumulation, exponential growth of
229

capital gains
85
,
179

capital accumulation
7
,
8
,
75
,
76
,
78
,
102
,
149
,
151
–
5
,
159
,
172
,
173
,
179
,
192
,
209
,
223
,
228
–
32
,
238
,
241
,
243
,
244
,
247
,
273
,
274
,
276

basic architecture for
88

and capital’s aim
92
,
96

collapse of
106

compound rate of
228
–
9

and the credit system
83

and democratisation
43

and demographic growth
231

and household consumerism
192

and lack of aggregate effective demand in the market
81

and the land market
59

and Marx
5

maximising
98

models of
53

in a new territories
152
–
3

perpetual
92
,
110
,
146
,
162
,
233
,
265

private
23

promotion of
34

and the property market
50

recent problems of
10

and the state
48

capitalism

ailing
58

an alternative to
36

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

city landscape of
160

consumerist
197

contagious predatory lawlessness within
109

crises essential to its reproduction
ix
;

defined
7

and demand-side management
85

and democracy
43

disaster
254
–
5
,
255

economic engine of
xiii
,
7
–
8
,
11
,
110
,
220
,
221
,
252
,
279

evolution of
218

geographical landscape of
146
,
159

global
xi
–
xii
,
108
,
124

history of
7

‘knowledge-based’
xii
,
238

and money power
33

and a moneyless economy
36

neoliberal
266

political economy of
xiv
;

and private property rights
41

and racialisation
8

reproduction of
ix
;

revivified
xi
;

vulture
162

capitalist markets
33
,
53

capitalo-centric studies
10

car industry
121
,
138
,
148
,
158
,
188

carbon trading
235
,
250

Caribbean migrants
115

Cartesian thinking
247

Cato Institute
143

Central America
136

central banks/bankers
xi
–
xii
,
37
,
45
,
46
,
48
,
51
,
109
,
142
,
156
,
161
,
173
,
233
,
245

centralisation
135
,
142
,
144
,
145
,
146
,
149
,
150
,
219

Césaire, Aimé
291

CFCs (chloro-fluorocarbons)
248
,
254
,
256
,
259

chambers of commerce
168

Chandler, Alfred
141

Chaplin, Charlie
103

Charles I, King
199

Chartism
184

Chávez, Hugo
123
,
201

cheating
57
,
61
,
63

Cheney, Dick
289

Chicago riots (1968)
x

chicanery
60
,
72

children
174

exploitation of
195

raising
188
,
190

trading of
26

violence and abuse of
193

Chile
136
,
194
,
280

coup of 1973
165
,
201

China

air quality
250
,
258

becomes dynamic centre of a global capitalism
124

a BRIC country
170
,
228

capital in (after 2000)
154

class struggles
233

and competition
150
,
161

consumerism
194
–
5
,
236

decentralisation
49

dirigiste
governmentality
48

dismantlement of old ships
250

dispossessions in
58

education
184
,
187

factories
123
,
129
,
174
,
182

famine in
124
–
5

‘great leap forward’
125

growth of
170
,
227
,
232

income inequalities
169

industrialisation
232

Keynesian demand-side and debt-financed expansion
xi
;

labour
80
,
82
,
107
,
108
,
123
,
174
,
230

life expectancy
259

personal debt
194

remittances
175

special economic zones
41
,
144

speculative booms and bubbles in housing markets
21

suburbanisation
253

and technology
101

toxic batteries
249
–
50

unstable lurches forward
10

urban and infrastructural projects
151

urbanisation
232

Chinese Communist Party
108
,
142

Church, the
185
,
189
,
199

circular cumulative causation
150

CitiBank
61

citizenship rights
168

civil rights
202
,
205

class

affluent classes
205

alliances
143
,
149

class analysis
xiii
;

conflict
85
,
159

domination
91
,
110

plutocratic capitalist
xiii
;

power
55
,
61
,
88
,
89
,
92
,
97
,
99
,
110
,
134
,
135
,
221
,
279

and race
166
,
291

rule
91

structure
91

class struggle
34
,
54
,
67
,
68
,
85
,
99
,
103
,
110
,
116
,
120
,
135
,
159
,
172
,
175
,
183
,
214
,
233

climate change
4
,
253
–
6
,
259

Clinton, President Bill
176

Cloud Atlas
(film)
271

CNN
285

coal
3
,
255

coercion
x
,
41
–
4
,
53
,
60
–
63
,
79
,
95
,
201
,
286

Cold War
153
,
165

collateralised debt obligations (CDOs)
78

Collins, Suzanne:
The Hunger Games
264

Colombia
280

colonialism
257

the colonised
289
–
90

indigenous populations
39
,
40

liberation from colonial rule
202

philanthropic
208
,
285

colonisation
229
,
262

‘combinatorial evolution’
96
,
102
,
104
,
146
,
147
,
248

commercialisation
262
,
263
,
266

commodification
24
,
55
,
57
,
59
–
63
,
88
,
115
,
140
,
141
,
192
,
193
,
235
,
243
,
251
,
253
,
260
,
262
,
263
,
273

commodities

advertising
275

asking price
31

and barter
24

commodity exchange
39
,
64

compared with products
25
–
6

defective or dangerous
72

definition
39

devaluation of
234

exchange value
15
,
25

falling costs of
117

importance of workers as buyers
80
–
81

international trade in
256

labour power as a commodity
62

low-value
29

mobility of
147
–
8

obsolescence
236

single metric of value
24

unique
140
–
41

use value
15
,
26
,
35

commodity markets
49

‘common capital of the class’
142
,
143

common wealth

created by social labour
53

private appropriation of
53
,
54
,
55
,
61
,
88
,
89

reproduction of
61

use values
53

commons

collective management of
50

crucial
295

enclosure of
41
,
235

natural
250

privatised
250

communications
99
,
147
,
148
,
177

communism
196

collapse of (1989)
xii
,
165

communist parties
136

during

Cold War
165

scientific
269

socialism/communism
91
,
269

comparative advantage
122

competition

and alienated workers
125

avoiding
31

between capitals
172

between energy and food production
3

decentralised
145

and deflationary crisis (1930s)
136

foreign
148
,
155

geopolitical
219

inter-capitalist
110

international
154
,
175

interstate
110

interterritorial
219

in labour market
116

and monopoly
131
–
45
,
146
,
218

and technology
92
–
3

and turnover time of capital
73
,
99

and wages
135

competitive advantage
73
,
93
,
96
,
112
,
161

competitive market
131
,
132

competitiveness
184

complementarity principle of
70

compounding growth
37
,
49
,
222
,
227
,
228
,
233
,
234
,
235
,
243
,
244