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by Retort (Author), Iain Boal (Author), T.J. Clark (Author), Joseph Matthews (Author), Michael Watts (Author)
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  • Paperback: 211 pages
  • Publisher: Verso Books; illustrated edition edition (13 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844670317
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844670314
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 14.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 401,326 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This provocative and wide-ranging inquiry - part analysis, part manifesto - brings to light a new phase in the historical process of primitive accumulation, a form of bitter class war and social reconstruction now proceeding in the guise of what the authors depict as 'military neo-liberalism'. The conclusions and analysis are brought to bear incisively on central events of the contemporary world, and on how its serious threats can be confronted" -- Noam Chomsky "A comprehensive analysis of America's relationship with the world. No stone is left unturned. The maggots exposed are grotesque." -- Harold Pinter


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Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present...its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances. Capital is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive accumulation. But never before has imperialism, and its dominant world power, been subject to real catastrophe in the realm of the spectacle. The present turn to empire is confronted by a variety of movements, including a new kind of vanguard whose weapons include the tool kit of spectacular politics. This book attempts to rethink the current global struggle, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main themes are the spectacle and September 11, blood for oil, permanent war and illusory peace, the US-Israel relationship, revolutionary Islam, and modernity and terror.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Plagiarism! Avoid!, 19 Oct 2009
This book has been widely publicised to be largely comprised of text, concepts, methods and ideas plagiarised wholesale from a work preceding it by several years by Nitzan and Bichler. To read about the controversy for yourself, just google "The Scientist and the Church". Please do not buy this book as to do so would be to support the theft of academic endeavour.
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