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Dominant bourgeois thought has replaced the historical reality of capitalism by an imaginary construction based on the principle, claimed to be eternal, of the rational and egoistic behaviour of the individual.
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This chapter is an extract from my book: Ending the crisis of capitalism or Ending Capitalism (Oxford: Fahamu Books, 2011).
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Amin, S. (2014). Historical Capitalism: Accumulation by Dispossession. In: Theory is History. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03816-2_5
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