Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

A good review , especially that it questions the authors’ ‘alternative’ and its limitations.

available in 5 languages The eleven  BRICS  countries now control nearly 20% of the  IMF ’s capital, in other words, the equivalent in voting power.

“As ill-defined as the term might be, in the cultural sphere the real value of the Global South is to open a space for decolonising conversations, articulating the kind of hybridity and complexity of modern identity that a nationality cannot, a conversation held far from the old imperialist orders of the Northern hemisphere. A utopian geography that may never be real but can serve a purpose.” A series of upcoming biennials promise to explore the art of the ‘Global South’

An easy read of an important topic. I wonder how could this ‘degrowth’ be implemented without the question of state, ownership, profit, etc. is even posited? Invoking ‘the fundamentals of the economic system’ without mentioning them and the class and power relations interlocking those fundamentals, leaves any clear alternative an open question. A review

A reply to Stathis Kouvelakis

Is the world poor, or unjust?

I am at the end of this book. I recommend it. You just need some updated figures while you are reading. The Globalisation of Production, Super-Exploitation and the Crisis of Capitalism Two major factors cause capitalist crisis: declining profitability and overproduction. I am not convinced that the latter is a major factor. The problem is not that capitalism produces too much, but that what it is produced is not provided to the global population. Half of the world population is unable to buy what is produced or buys too little of what is produced because it is too poor. That means that lack of investment in large swathes of the world–Latin America and South Africa, Africa, parts of the Middle East and Asia–unemployment, precarity, etc. deprives half of the world from getting access to what is produced. Those who produce get little or almost nothing from what they produce.  According to the WHO “around 45% of deaths among children under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition. ...

 

 Climate activism and the fetishization of nonviolence

 Forecast for 2021

There is little historical evidence to trust that any French leader would have done things differently.  The rights of global south populations cannot possibly match those bestowed upon the civilised masses in Europe, so why undermine the potential for profit for those who are so disposable? Or perhaps his universalism is genuine - which would explain his own commitment to violent repression of political movements and the repeated assaults  on civil liberties in France.  The French state’s relationship to "rights" is always connected to its own interests, as is the “terrorism” it claims to fight . Sisi and the hypocrisy of France’s so-called defence of human rights

  The Great Lockdown hits the Third World hard

A quality analysis Dreams and Nightmares of the World’s Middle Classes