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Corporations, Accounting, Securities Laws, and the Extinction of Capitalism
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Corporations, Accounting, Securities Laws, and the Extinction of Capitalism

by Wm. Dennis Huber
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
198 pages
6h 31m
English
Routledge
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9Capitalists, Capitalism, Social Systems, Classes, and Power

DOI: 10.4324/9781003240969-13

Introduction

No discussion of capitalism and its extinction would be complete without at least briefly acknowledging social structures and the classes produced by capitalism. As Radice (1999) thoughtfully observes, “Economic behaviour cannot be separated from social relations centred on the distribution of resources and power, and the social construction of beliefs and institutions” (p. 721).

Classes have existed throughout human history. There are, of course, many ways to categorize classes, e.g., peasants and nobility; lords and vassals; or classes based on heredity as in a caste system. Classes are not necessarily diametrically opposed as are bourgeois ...

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