The Wealth of (Some) Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer

The Wealth of (Some) Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer image
ISBN-10:

0745338860

ISBN-13:

9780745338866

Author(s): Cope, Zak
Released: Apr 15, 2019
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
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About the Author\nZak Cope is the author of Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism.\nIn this provocative new study, Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today. Using a rigorous political economic framework, he lays bare the vast ongoing transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest countries through the mechanisms of monopoly rent, unequal exchange, and colonial tribute. The result is a polarized international class structure with a relatively rich Global North and an impoverished, exploited Global South.
Cope makes the controversial claim that it is because of these conditions that workers in rich countries benefit from higher incomes and welfare systems with public health, education, pensions, and social security. As a result, the internationalism of populations in the Global North is weakened and transnational solidarity is compromised. The only way forward, Cope argues is through a renewed anti-imperialist politics rooted in a firm commitment to a radical labor internationalism.

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