Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (53 page)

Reclus, Elisée
140

regional development
151

regional volatility
154

Reich, Robert
123
,
188

religion
7

religious affiliation
68

religious

hatreds and discriminations
8

religious minorities
168

remittances
175

rent seeking
132
–
3
,
142

rentiers
76
,
77
,
78
,
89
,
150
,
179
,
180
,
241
,
244
,
251
,
260
,
261
,
276

rents
xii
,
16
–
19
,
22
,
32
,
54
,
67
,
77
,
78
,
84
,
123
,
179
,
241

monopoly
93
,
135
,
141
,
187
,
251

repression
271
,
280

autocratic
130

militarised
264

police-state
203

violent
269
,
280
,
297

wage
158
,
274

Republican Party (US)
145
,
280

Republicans (US)
167
,
206

res nullius
doctrine
40

research and development
94
,
96
,
187

‘resource curse’
123

resource scarcity
77

revolution, Fanon’s view of
288

revolutionary movements
202
,
276

Ricardo, David
122
,
244
,
251

right, the

ideological and political assault on the left
xii
;

response to universal alienation
281

‘rights of man’
40
,
59
,
213

Rio de Janeiro
84

risk
17
,
141
,
162
,
219
,
240

robbery
53
,
57
,
60
,
63
,
72

robotisation
103
,
119
,
188
,
295

Rodney, Walter
291

romantic movement
261

Roosevelt, Theodore
131
,
135

Four Freedoms
201

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
213
,
214

Ruhr, Germany
150

rural landscapes
160
–
61

Russia
154

a BRIC country
170
,
228

collapse of (1989)
165

financial crisis (1998)
154
,
232

indebtedness
152

local famine
124

oligarchs take natural resource wealth
165

‘S’ curve
225
,
230
–
31

Saint-Simon, Claude de Rouvroy, comte de
183

sales
28
,
31
,
187
,
236

San Francisco
150

Santiago, Chile: street battles (2006–)
185

Sao Paulo, Brazil
129
,
195

savings

the house as a form of saving
19
,
22
,
58

loss of
20
,
58

private
36

protecting the value of
20

Savings and Loan Crisis (USA from 1986)
18

savings accounts
5
,
6

Scandinavia
18
,
85
,
165

scarcity
37
,
77
,
200
,
208
,
240
,
246
,
260
,
273

Schumpeter, Joseph
98
,
276

science, and technology
95

Seattle
196

Second Empire Paris
197

Second World War
x
,
161
,
234

Securities and Exchange

Commission
120
,
195

security
xiii
,
16
,
121
,
122
,
165
,
205
,
206

economic
36
,
153

food
253
,
294
,
296

job
273

national
157

Sen, Amartya
208
–
11
,
281

Development as Freedom
208
–
9

senior citizens
168

Seoul
84

serfdom
62
,
209

sexual hatreds and discriminations
8

Shanghai
153
,
160

share-cropping
62

Sheffield
148
,
149
,
159
,
258

Shenzhen, China
77

Silicon Valley
16
,
143
,
144
,
150

silver
27
–
31
,
33
,
37
,
57
,
233
,
238

Simon, Julian
246

Singapore
48
,
123
,
150
,
184
,
187
,
203

slavery
62
,
202
,
206
,
209
,
213
,
268

slums
ix
,
16
,
175

Smith, Adam
98
,
125
–
6
,
157
,
185
,
201
,
204

‘invisible hand’
141
–
2

The Wealth of Nations
118
,
132

Smith, Neil
248

social distinction
68
,
166

social inequality
34
,
110
,
111
,
130
,
171
,
177
,
180
,
220
,
223
,
266

social justice
200
,
266
,
268
,
276

social labour
53
,
73
,
295

alienated
64
,
66
,
88

and common wealth
53

creation of use values through
36

expansion of total output
232

household and communal work
296

immateriality of
37
,
233

and money
25
,
27
,
31
,
42
,
55
,
88
,
243

productivity
239

and profit
104

and value
26
,
27
,
29
,
104
,
106
,
107
,
109

weakening regulatory role of
109
,
110

social media
99
,
136
,
236
–
7
,
278
–
9

social movements
162
–
3

social reproduction
80
,
127
,
182
–
98
,
218
,
219
,
220
,
276

social security
36
,
165

social services
68

social struggles
156
,
159
,
165
,
168

social value
26
,
27
,
32
,
33
,
55
,
172
,
179
,
241
,
244
,
268
,
270

socialism
215

democratic
xii
;

‘gas and water’
183

socialism/communism
91
,
269

socialist revolution
67

socialist totalitarianism
205

society

capitalist
15
,
34
,
81
,
243
,
259

civil
92
,
122
,
156
,
185
,
189
,
252

civilised
161
,
167

complex
26

demolition of
56

and freedom
205
–
6
,
210
,
212

hope for a better society
218

industrial
205

information
238

market
204

post-colonial
203

pre-capitalist
55

primitive
57

radical transformation of
290

status position in
186

theocratic
62

women in
113

work-based
273

world
204

soil erosion
257

South Africa
84
–
5
,
152
,
169

apartheid
169
,
202
,
203

South Asia

labour
108

population growth
230

software programmers and developers
115
,
116

South Korea
123
,
148
,
150
,
153

South-East Asia
107
–
8

crisis (1997–8)
154
,
232
,
241

sovereign debt crises
37

Soviet Bloc, ex-, labour in
107

Soviet Union
196
,
202

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Russia

Spain
xi
,
51
,
161

housing market crash (2007–9)
82
–
3

spatio-temporal fixes
151
–
2
,
153
,
154
,
162

spectacle
237
–
8
,
242
,
278

speculative bubbles and busts
178

stagnation
xii
,
136
,
161
–
2
,
169

Stalin, Joseph
70

standard of life
23
,
175

starvation
56
,
124
,
246
,
249
,
260
,
265

state, the

aim of
156
–
7

brutality
266
,
280

and capital accumulation
48

and civil society
156

curbing the powers of capital as private property
47

evolution of the capitalist state
42

and externality effects
44

guardian of private property and of individual rights
42

and home ownership
49
–
50

interstate system
156
,
157

interventionism
193
,
205

legitimate use of violence
42
,
44
,
45
,
51
,
88
,
155
,
173

loss of state sovereignty
xii
;

and money
1
,
45
–
6
,
51
,
173

‘nightwatchman’ role
42
,
50

powers of
42
–
5
,
47
–
52
,
57
–
8
,
65
,
72
,
142
,
155
–
9
,
209
,
295

and private property
47
,
50
,
58
,
59
,
146
,
210

provision of collective and public goods
42
–
3

a security and surveillance state
xiii
;

social democratic states
85

war aims
44

state benefits
165

state regulatory agencies
101

state-finance nexus
44
–
5
,
46
–
7
,
142
–
3
,
156
,
233

state-private property nexus
88
–
9

steam engine, invention of the
3

steel industry
120
,
121
,
148
,
188

steel production
73
–
4

Stiglitz, Joseph
132
–
4

stock market crash (1929)
x

Stockholm, protests in (2013)
171
,
243

strikes
65
,
103
,
124

sub-prime mortgage crisis
50

suburbanisation
253

supply and demand
31
,
33
,
56
,
106

supply chain
124

supply-side remedies
xi

supply-side theories
82
,
176

surplus value
28
,
40
,
63
,
73
,
79
–
83
,
172
,
239

surveillance
xiii
,
94
,
121
,
122
,
201
,
220
,
264
,
280
,
292