Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on July 6, 2005
Community Development Journal 2005 40(3):358-361; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi057
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The Lugano Report On Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
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Susan George, Pluto Press, London, 2003, 232 pp., ISBN 0745322069
A party of virtual commissioners, who are a sort of masters of the universe, ask ten European and Northern American men for a report. The only questions this working party is asked to address are: How can capitalism continue to reign throughout the twenty-first century? What dangers could threaten its dominance and what must be done to render the system invulnerable? The men meet in Lugano, a nice, calm place in rich Switzerland, and write their report.
Their premises are clear: capitalism is the holy trinity of the ruling class and all other values must be sacrificed to this. The bedrock of
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