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		<title>Capitalism and a Commoditised World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the Nature of Capitalism We, in Western communities, live in a commoditised world. In a manner never before seen in human society, Western peoples convert anything and everything into money-making commodities – objects which can be exploited for profit – and believe that it is &#8216;natural&#8217; to do so. Vast financial and promotional industries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Capitalism: Some are more equal than others</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the Nature of Capitalism Entries (RSS) ; Comments (RSS) Over the past nine months we have covered a range of topics in our exploration of the nature of capitalism. A topic which has been presumed in those discussions, but never directly addressed, is the nature of reciprocity and exchange. Capitalism presumes market exchange as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Capitalism: Is The Sweat-Shop the Destination?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the Nature of Capitalism Entries (RSS) ; Comments (RSS) In 2001, 924 million people, or 31.6 per cent of the world’s urban population, lived in slums. The majority of them were in the developing regions, accounting for 43 per cent of the urban population… In many cities, there are more poor people outside slum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Capitalism, Western Realities: From Protectionism to Free Markets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the Nature of Capitalism Entries (RSS) ; Comments (RSS) The problem of 2010 is &#8216;sovereign debt&#8217; (well &#8211; one of them anyway!). Western nations have profligately continued to fund social welfare measures — such as aged pensions, free health care, free education, unemployment benefits, child and family support, poverty alleviation … — as though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism and its Colonies: Nation-States, Third World Nations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the Nature of Capitalism Entries (RSS) ; Comments (RSS) We are at the start of a new century. A century which promised so much.  Yet it is threatened by forces greater than we, inhabitants of a capitalist world, have ever seen. And, largely, they have been invoked by us. But for capitalism, they would not threaten. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism and Work: The White Man&#8217;s Burden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the Nature of Capitalism Entries (RSS) ; Comments (RSS) It is said that the aphorism &#8216;Know Yourself&#8217; was inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi — Finding out who we are can be an unsettling experience. Not only do human beings gild memories of experiences in their own lifetimes, they are extremely adept at reinventing those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalinternetlibrary.com/Blog/index.php/2010/capitalism-and-work-the-white-mans-burden/</link>
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		<title>The Virtuous Capitalist, The Poor and the Wasteland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the Nature of Capitalism Entries (RSS) ; Comments (RSS) In the last post, we described how capitalism gained its evangelical force. In this post we describe the lot of &#8216;The Poor&#8217; during the 18th and 19th centuries, and the ways in which, finally, they gained a foothold into the &#8216;lower middle classes&#8217; of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Born Again Christians Rescued Capitalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the Nature of Capitalism Entries (RSS) ; Comments (RSS) This is the 3rd post on the nature of capitalism. The previous post &#8216; The Historical Emergence of Capitalism&#8216; traced the experiences of western Europeans which led to capitalism. It finished in the 18th century, with Adam Smith&#8217;s outline of a new environment &#8211; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalinternetlibrary.com/Blog/index.php/2010/how-born-again-christians-rescued-capitalism/</link>
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		<title>Why &#8216;Third World&#8217; and why &#8216;development&#8217;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why Third World? In all posts to this blog site the term &#8216;Third World&#8217; is used as short-hand for those countries to which the term originally referred during the &#8216;Cold War&#8217;.  We consider it preferable to such terms as &#8216;Developing&#8217;, &#8216;Under-developed&#8217; and &#8216;Less-developed&#8217; worlds or  &#8216;Global South&#8217;.  The term &#8216;Global South&#8217; makes less sense than the anachronistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Historical Emergence of Capitalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the Nature of Capitalism Entries (RSS) ; Comments (RSS) Following on from the first post, this post explores the historical conditions in western Europe which led to the emergence of capitalism. This is an exploration of how some of the most basic presumptions which underpin Western understandings of life have been shaped by history, becoming seen [...]]]></description>
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