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Brian Bergstrom, Kohei Saito: Slow Down (Astra House) No rating

Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to …

”As Wallerstein saw it, capitalism relies on an opposition between “core” and “periphery.” Cheap labor is extracted from the periphery known as the Globa South, and the core raises its profits by driving down the price of the goods produced by that labor. This unequal exchange of labor power is what brings about the overdevelopment of developed countries and the underdevelopment of developing ones, according to Wallerstein."