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Capitalism: A Structural Genocide Paperback – April 1, 2012

by Garry Leech (Author)
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In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.

Drawing on a number of fascinating case studies from across the world - including the forced displacement of farmers in Mexico, farmer suicides in India, and deaths from preventable and treatable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the unsustainable exploitation of the planet's natural resources - Leech provocatively argues that global capitalism constitutes a form of genocide against the poor, particularly in the global South.

Essential and eye-opening the book questions the legitimacy of a system that inevitably results in such large-scale human suffering, while going beyond mere critique to offer a more egalitarian, democratic and sustainable global alternative.

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    192 pages
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    April 1, 2012
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    5.5 x 0.45 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1780321996
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1780321998
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  • Robert Kirkconnell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes Truth Hurts
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2013
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    But sometimes truth needs to be told even when people are not quite ready to listen. That time is coming soon. There are no more bubbles to blow and about one more financial crisis resulting in billionaires wanting us to feel sorry for them and their "too big to fail" corporations is going to tip the scale. The stark reality is that capitalism is like a feeding shark that rips apart anything in front of it, and the feeding frenzy has gone on for too long. The chickens are coming home to roost. It is time to face these unpleasant facts and Garry Leech has done an outstanding job of telling a story that we don't want to hear, but we need to listen to.

    Robert Kirkconnell
    Author of: American Heart of Darkness: Volume I: The Transformation of the American Republic into a Pathocracy (Volume 1)
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  • Mary Lou Edwards
    5.0 out of 5 stars SADDENED
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2013
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    I did not enjoy this book but thought I should revisit Marxism to determine if it offered any new explanations about what is transpiring in the USA & globally. I was secretly hoping that the author would peddle the same tired leftist ideas or rehash the sixties and I could simply continue hoping things would change for the better. Gary Leech does not attempt to be a "good "writer but drives his arguments into the reader consciousness with unrelenting vigor and admirable schlorlarship.
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  • Z. Martinez
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2013
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    Very good and comprehensive book that leaves you thinking about what goes on in the world today. It is easy to read, it is intended for the average person which makes it better.
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  • G. Roberts
    5.0 out of 5 stars Capitalism's Destiny
    Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2013
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    Fantastic book by brilliant writer with enormous insight---would be a different world if this were required reading for the capitalist world's students
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  • Bertrum
    5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading
    Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2013
    In the midst of a new 'Gilded Age,' in which global elites are increasingly isolated from the major problems and injustices that result from their catastrophic efforts at self-preservation and enrichment, Leech's book is a valuable contribution toward outlining the problems that lie at the core of of the capitalist economic and political world system.

    While you may not find what are sure to seem like such alarmist views in the mainstream, Leech's straightforward and concise effort to call out the structural flaws in our society that cause untold grief and misery to billions of our fellow human beings is a clear and chilling reminder at what lies beneath the shiny consumerist veneer of rich, industrialized countries.

    With all the force that such an argument requires, Leech uses case studies spanning the globe to spell out the high cost of contemporary capitalism and our own wilfully blind complicity in the structural violence that makes it possible.

    His prescription for a 'revolutionary transformation to socialism' as the only bulwark against 'barbarism or extermination' is backed by clear arguments that reveal with frightening clarity just how pressing is the greatest challenge for humanity in the twenty-first century, and indeed in the history of human kind.
    18 people found this helpful
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  • Madeline Parks
    5.0 out of 5 stars Important to Our Times
    Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2018
    The book is a great resource for addressing the issues of the neoliberal exploitation of the developing world. Also, the author is the brother of a professor whom I respect who teaches at the university I attend.
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  • William H. Vallely
    1.0 out of 5 stars Community College Communism....
    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014
    After I suggested that someone read "The Black Book of Communism" he responded by demanding that I read Mr. Leech's book "Capitalism, A Structural Genocide." I got through the first 60 pages until I remember George Barnard Shaw's quote that "one needed eat an entire egg to know that it is rotten."

    C:ASG is boilerplate Marxism. Sadly, Mr. Leech is far more Marx than Engles. ("Karl, simple words. Catchy phrases. 'Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose by your chains.'") The most interesting part of the book took place in the Amazon, when Mr. Leech was outraged that a fishing village was abandoned because (among other reasons) the locals went to work for an oil company, got a taste of the good life, and decided to join civilization when the oil company left.

    Gary strikes me as a trust fund baby who's outraged that peasants refuse to live their lives in crippling poverty, denying him views of quaint lifestyles.

    I would suggest that Mr. Leech (love that name) pick up a copy of "The Black Book of Communism" and learn how the world REALLY works.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Australia on January 8, 2017
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    Wonderfully written. Very accessible. Radical.
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  • C E Harries
    5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading
    Reviewed in Canada on July 18, 2013
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    The world is changing so rapidly and the changes are so ominous that a single volume, well written, persuasively, but honestly, argued and grounded in historical scholarship is a necessity.
    In a world in which the noise of misinformation, lies and propaganda sometimes seems to overwhelm serious debate we can no longer wait for the truth to evidence itself in experience.
    Not one but several clocks are running: most ominously environmental degradation and the wastage of finite resources means that we no longer have the luxury of waiting and watching greed and stupidity shape the world our children will live in. Almost equally dangerous is the rapidity with which individual freedom and creativity are being hoovered into a dull, intimidated conformity: as totalitarianism looms our minds are being shaped to obey and trust the scoundrels who rule us.
    Thus is the system of capitalism reaching a climax, a tiny elite of super wealthy, devouring the natural world and cannibalising the 99%. All the time utterly oblivious to the moral notion that actions have consequences, that what is eaten today is not available for the morrow.
    Without justice, not law but justice, there can be no future for us. We must learn to live together, to assist one another and to co-operate. Or we will die, unlamented.
    Gary Leech, in 160 pages has written a book which explains these truths.
    When you have read it, pass it on to a friend.
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  • Anita
    4.0 out of 5 stars Capitalism: a Structural Genocide ( a review with one caveat...)
    Reviewed in Canada on December 13, 2015
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    What an eye-opener. Author obviously did his homework on capitalism and its warts. A little heavy on the wonders of socialism, neglecting to take into account the vagaries of human nature. I'm afraid that no wonder how ideal a form of government is on paper or in theory, humans will unerringly do their best to sabotage it via a natural bent towards greed and self-interest. Is that a reason to ignore the entrenched evils of rampant Capitalism? No, and we are grateful to Garry Leech for articulating what makes many of us uneasy about the casual assumption that Capitalism is the only and most desirable way to run an enlightened society. Thank-you, Mr. Leech. Keep slaying those dragons. We are passing your book along to those friends who we hope will read it and do some thinking.
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