Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (48 page)

perpetual
222
–
45
,
296

computerisation
100
,
120
,
222

computers
92
,
100
,
105
,
119

hardware
92
,
101

organisational forms
92
,
93
,
99
,
101

programming
120

software
92
,
99
,
101
,
115
,
116

conscience laundering
211
,
245
,
284
,
286

Conscious Capitalism
284

constitutional rights
58

constitutionality
60
,
61

constitutions

progressive
284

and social bond between human rights and private property
40

US Constitution
284

and usurpation of power
45

consumerism
89
,
106
,
160
,
192
–
5
,
197
,
198
,
236
,
274
–
7

containerisation
138
,
148
,
158

contracts
71
,
72
,
93
,
207

contradictions

Aristotelian conception of
4

between money and the social labour money represents
83

between reality and appearance
4
–
6

between use and exchange value
83

of capital and capitalism
68

contagious intensification of
14

creative use of
3

dialectical conception of
4

differing reactions to
2
–
3

and general crises
14

and innovation
3

moved around rather than resolved
3
–
4

multiple
33
,
42

resolution of
3
,
4

two modes of usage
1
–
2

unstable
89

Controller of the Currency
120

corporations

and common wealth
54

corporate management
98
–
9

power of
57
–
8
,
136

and private property
39
–
40

‘visible hand’
141
–
2

corruption
53
,
197
,
266

cosmopolitanism
285

cost of living
164
,
175

credit cards
67
,
133
,
277

credit card companies
54
,
84
,
278

credit financing
152

credit system
83
,
92
,
101
,
111
,
239

crises

changes in mental conceptions of the world
ix
-
x
;

crisis of capital
4

defined
4

essential to the reproduction of capitalism
ix
;

general crisis ensuing from contagions
14

housing markets crisis (2007–9)
18
,
20
,
22

reconfiguration of physical landscapes
ix
;

slow resolution of
x
;

sovereign debt crisis (after 2012)
37

currency markets, turbulence of (late 1960s)
x

customary rights
41
,
59
,
198

Davos conferences
169

DDT
259

Debord, Guy:
The Society of the Spectacle
236

debt creation
236

debt encumbrancy
212

debt peonage
62
,
212

decentralisation
49
,
142
,
143
,
144
,
146
,
148
,
219
,
281
,
295

Declaration of Independence (US)
284

decolonisation
282
,
288
,
290

decommodification
85

deindustrialisation
xii
,
77
–
8
,
98
,
110
,
148
,
153
,
159
,
234

DeLong, Bradford
228

demand management
81
,
82
,
106
,
176

demand-side management
85

democracy
47
,
215

bourgeois
43
,
49

governance within capitalism
43

social
190

totalitarian
220
,
292

democratic governance
220
,
266

democratisation
43

Deng Xiaoping
x

depressions
49
,
227
1930s
x
,
108
,
136
,
169
,
227
,
232
,
234

Descartes, René
247

Detroit
77
,
136
,
138
,
148
,
150
,
152
,
155
,
159
,
160

devaluation
153
,
155
,
162

of capital
233

of commodities
234

crises
150
–
51
,
152
,
154

localised
154

regional
154

developing countries
16
,
240

Dhaka, Bangladesh
77

dialectics
70

Dickens, Charles
126
,
169

Bleak House
226

Dombey and Son
184

digital revolution
144

disabled, the
202

see also
handicapped

discrimination
7
,
8
,
68
,
116
,
297

diseases
10
,
211
,
246
,
254
,
260

disempowerment
81
,
103
,
116
,
119
,
198
,
270

disinvestment
78

Disneyfication
276

dispossession

accumulation by
60
,
67
,
68
,
84
,
101
,
111
,
133
,
141
,
212

and capital
54
,
55
,
57

economies of
162

of indigenous populations
40
,
59
,
207

‘land grabs’
58

of land rights of the Irish
40

of the marginalised
198

political economy of
58

distributional equality
172

distributional shares
164
–
5
,
166

division of labour
24
,
71
,
112
–
30
,
154
,
184
,
268
,
270

and Adam Smith
98
,
118

defined
112

‘the detail division of labour’
118
,
121

distinctions and oppositions
113
–
14

evolution of
112
,
120
,
121
,
126

and gender
114
–
15

increasing complexity of
124
,
125
,
126

industrial proletariat
114

and innovation
96

‘new international division of labour’
122
–
3

organisation of
98

proliferating
121

relation between the parts and the whole
112

social
113
,
118
,
121
,
125

technical
113
,
295

uneven geographical developments in
130

dot-com bubble (1990s)
222
–
3
,
241

‘double coincidence of wants and needs’
24

drugs
32
,
193
,
248

cartels
54

Durkheim, Emile
122
,
125

Dust Bowl (United States, 1930s)
257

dynamism
92
,
104
,
146
,
219

dystopia
229
,
232
,
264

Eagleton , Terry:
Why Marx Was Right
1
,
21
,
200
,
214
–
15

East Asia

crisis of 1997–
98
154

dirigiste
governmentality
48

education
184

rise of
170

Eastern Europe
115
,
230

ecological offsets
250

economic rationality
211
,
250
,
252
,
273
,
274
,
275
,
277
,
278
,
279

economies
48

advanced capitalist
228
,
236

agglomeration
149

of dispossession
162

domination of industrial cartels and finance capital
135

household
192

informal
175

knowledge-based
188

mature
227
–
8

regional
149

reoriented to demand-side management
85

of scale
75

solidarity
66
,
180

stagnant
xii

ecosystems
207
,
247
,
248
,
251
–
6
,
258
,
261
,
263
,
296

Ecuador
46
,
152
,
284

education
23
,
58
,
60
,
67
–
8
,
84
,
110
,
127
–
8
,
129
,
134
,
150
,
156
,
168
,
183
,
184
,
185
,
187
,
188
,
189
,
223
,
235
,
296

efficiency
71
,
92
,
93
,
98
,
103
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
122
,
126
,
272
,
273
,
284

efficient market hypothesis
118

Egypt
107
,
280
,
293

Ehrlich, Paul
246

electronics
120
,
121
,
129
,
236
,
292

emerging markets
170
–
71
,
242

employment
37

capital in command of job creation
172
,
174

conditions of
128

full-time
274

opportunities for
xii
,
108
,
168

regional crises of
151

of women
108
,
114
,
115
,
127

see also
labour

enclosure movement
58

Engels, Friedrich
70

The Condition of the English Working Class in England
292

English Civil War (1642–9)
199

Enlightenment
247

Enron
133
,
241

environmental damage
49
,
61
,
110
,
111
,
113
,
232
,
249
–
50
,
255
,
257
,
258
,
259
,
265
,
286
,
293

environmental movement
249
,
252

environmentalism
249
,
252
–
3

Epicurus
283

equal rights
64

Erasmus, Desiderius
283

ethnic hatreds and discriminations
8
,
165

ethnic minorities
168

ethnicisation
62

ethnicity
7
,
68
,
116

euro, the
15
,
37
,
46

Europe

deindustrialisation in
234

economic development in
10

fascist parties
280

low population growth rate
230

social democratic era
18

unemployment
108

women in labour force
230

European Central Bank
37
,
46
,
51

European Commission
51

European Union (EU)
95
,
159

exchange values

commodities
15
,
25
,
64

dominance of
266

and housing
14
–
23
,
43