Economic democracy : the political struggle of the twenty-first century / J.W. Smith

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-366) and index

The secret of free enterprise capital accumulation -- The violent accumulation of capital is firmly rooted in history: establishing the underlying principles of twentieth-century "free trade" -- Imposing a belief system under which the unwitting willingly hand their wealth to the cunning -- The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo eliminated France as a major threat to British trade -- World wars, trade wars: battles over who decides the rules of unequal trade -- The world breaking free frightened the security councils of every western nation -- Suppressing the former colonial world's break for economic freedom -- Creating enemies for the masers: the Inquisitions of the Middle Ages were, and the inquisitions of today still are, to prevent democratic choice -- Suppressing the freedom of others under the flag of freedom: twentieth-century inquisitions -- The IMF/World bank/GATT/NAFTA/WTO MAI/military colossus: the enforcers of structural adjustments and unequal trades -- The IMF/World Bank/GATT/NAFTA/WTO/MAI/military colossus: emerging corporate mercantilism -- IMF/World Bank/GATT/NAFTA/WTO/MAI structural adjustments: impoverishing labor and eventually capital -- Unequal trades in agriculture -- Developing world loans, capital flight, debt traps, and forgiveness of unjust debt -- Multiplier factor: accumulating capital through capitalizing values of externally produced wealth -- Japan's post-World War II defensive economic warfare plan -- Japanese/Chinese/Southeast Asian post-World War II development: an accident of history and a crisis for western imperial centers of capital -- Capital destroying capital -- A new hope for the world -- The Earth's capacity to sustain developed economies -- The political structure of sustainable world development -- Sustainable world development: equal free trade as opposed to unequal free trade -- Sharing technology with the world through cooperative capitalism: a grand strategy for world peace and prosperity -- Subtly monopolizing land -- Subtly monopolizing society's tools (technology) through stock markets and patents -- Subtly monopolizing money --Subtly monopolizing information -- Media to empower the powerless