Economic readings (30)

Economic reading (30)

Book: Of Bread and Guns - The world Economy in Crisis.

Author: Nigel Harris.

Reading:

This book on the global economy, the aim of its writing, is to describe to the average reader in the simplest possible way some elements of how the system works, its main movements, and its important phenomena. This attempt has not always succeeded, as the text is still regrettably in many stages in those terrible terms in which economists often try to hide their ideas.

The world system described here is seen as a geographical system of production and money, not primarily as a set of inter-country relations. This is not how people usually see it. The statement does not care where the majority of people live. Our main concern is production, not consumption, with the forces that bring about change and those regions and activities that have the greatest influence over the rest. Accordingly, we pay more attention to industrial centres in the system than in regions of the world where the majority of people live.

The construction of the book is as follows. First, there is an introduction to the processing method, a chapter that can be jumped from for those who want substance. It then presents the regime's immediate past, and then an urgent look at the 1970s. Two chapters then describe some of the most important aspects of the system today. Chapter 6 gives a picture of the Eastern Bloc and chapter VII of two important sectors of activity. Then, an annex to Chapter VII summarizes the debate to that point and the final two chapters to examine proposals for the revitalization of the world order.

The author of this book is a science of international socialism, in which he gives a picture of the socio-economic state of today's world. This image of realism must be influenced, by its features and its alon, by the author's convictions, which have been formed in his working life and intellectual activity in the international socialism community.

In the first chapter of his book, Harris says: "The real world is a world order, not a village system... A distributed production system that links raw material sources to the complexity of the endless manufacturing process and the global market". He also states in chapter VII annex: "Socialism was not only impossible in one country, but capitalism is also impossible in one country". Harris' statement is over. The world order that brought these words and about which this book is researched in detail and realism is supported by evidence and figures "although this research does not reach a way out of man's salvation from capitalist slavery".

The material progress of any society is the result of the series of human civilizations that preceded it; it is part of the sum of the material state of the human civilization of its time; and in every human society it represents the face of this civilization in this society. Capitalist civilization, for example, includes not only its material ((flashy) side in developed Europe, but also the side (dark)) in oppressed societies in the rest of the human sentence.

The author highlighted the unity of the contemporary world order and gave him accurate images that reflected the truest expression of reality in all its facets. The most dangerous strands and links that pull parts of this system together are traced.

We do not exaggerate if we say that human beings among human societies are now wasting more than half of their material potential because of the chaos and aggression of the global monopolistic capitalist system led by the United States of America. Harris says "The system is not governed by the needs of the world's population or the needs of the poor, whether they are states or individuals," Harris' statement is over. Indeed, there is a historical system through which all human societies go through. This system has its own laws that cause war, destruction, corruption, hunger, disease, poverty and the narrowness of conditions for the majority of the world's people, as well as obscene wealth and luxury.

It is not absurd and wasted time to think and try to correct the relations of this global monopolistic capitalist system, based mainly on a product of opposing forces in a shaky reality that must clear the scene and move on to be replaced by another reality that responds to the new data of human progress.