Commodifying Plunder
Language: English
Published by The Merlin Press Ltd, GB, 2026
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Who benefits when wealthycountries seek 'economic co-operation' ? Does economic expansion bring commerceand violence, pillage and genocide to less wealthy countries? Contemporary corporations andtheir owners - equipped with wealth, influence, and empowered by dominantstates and global institutions - embody old-style colonial ruthlessness in newforms. Violence riddles global production, through routinised sweatshop labour,environmental degradation, resource grabs, lost livelihoods - behind a veil of'development' and 'civilised' progress. Strip away overt violence,and contemporary trade is still plunder, just neatly commodified and concealed.Lengthy and complex supply chains obscure the conditions in which products aremade. International trade brings income inequality. Labour's share of wealthdeclines. Few of us would steal food from a starving three-year-old or abduct amother to exploit her, and yet our everyday participation in the economy hasthe same effect. This book explains basic concepts of Marxist economic theory.It seeks to be a resource for scholars and activists - accessible whilepreserving depth, serious but not opaque. It has a simple message: This systemdoes not end well unless we end it.…
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- Title
- Commodifying Plunder
- Author
- Rammelt Crelis
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd, GB
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0850368081
- ISBN 13
- 9780850368086
Who benefits when wealthy countries seek 'economic co-operation' ? Does economic expansion bring commerce and violence, pillage and genocide to less wealthy countries?
Contemporary corporations and their owners - equipped with wealth, influence, and empowered by dominant states and global institutions - embody old-style colonial ruthlessness in new forms. Violence riddles global production, through routinised sweatshop labour, environmental degradation, resource grabs, lost livelihoods - behind a veil of 'development' and 'civilised' progress.
Strip away overt violence, and contemporary trade is still plunder, just neatly commodified and concealed. Lengthy and complex supply chains obscure the conditions in which products are made. International trade brings income inequality. Labour's share of wealth declines. Few of us would steal food from a starving three-year-old or abduct a mother to exploit her, and yet our everyday participation in the economy has the same effect. This book explains basic concepts of Marxist economic theory. It seeks to be a resource for scholars and activists - accessible while preserving depth, serious but not opaque. It has a simple message: This system does not end well unless we end it.
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About the Author
Dr Crelis Rammelt is an associate professor in environmental geography and development studies at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His research and teaching focus on forging links across disciplinary divides - mostly in the areas of political ecology, post-development, and systems science. He has also been involved in establishing the Dutch degrowth platform Ontgroei and in leading an action research and social justice programme in Bangladesh.
Author based in Amsterdam Available for events.
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