Alf Gunvald Nilsen is professor of sociology at the University of Pretoria. His research focuses on the political economy of development and democracy in the global South. His most recent book is Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland (Cambridge University Press).
Marx on exploitation: an ABC for an unequal world
The world’s 2,153 billionaires currently control more wealth than the bottom 4.6 billion people (60% of the planet’s population) precisely because the worldwide exploitation of working classes has thrown up perverse patterns of maldistribution.
November 23, 2020