Long Reads: Aaron Benanav on Automation and the Long Downturn
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The Great Financial Crisis
Marxist historian Robert Brenner says the financial crisis grew out of difficulties to the real economy. The post-war epoch naturally divides itself into two distinct eras, he argues. Since 1973, advanced capitalist countries have experienced ever-worsening economic performance decade by decade., writes Brenner. In order to restore their profits, corporations have unleashed a relentless assault on the wages, salaries, working conditions, and organizations of working people that has continued to this day,. said Brenner.
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