Inequality, Crisis and Politics of outrage: The Reconfiguration of Post-Crisis Social Classes in the North Atlantic Region

By drawing on a Marxist perspective, the author ventures into an interpretation of the current economic crisis. The author suggest that the crisis is rooted in a long term process of radical transformation in the North Atlantic countries’s class relations. In particular, he maintains that the compos...

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Main Author: Hayes, Matthew
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador 2011
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Online Access:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/comentario/article/view/82
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Summary:By drawing on a Marxist perspective, the author ventures into an interpretation of the current economic crisis. The author suggest that the crisis is rooted in a long term process of radical transformation in the North Atlantic countries’s class relations. In particular, he maintains that the composition of classes existent in the 40s and 50s of the 20th century-relatively egalitarian, has changed due to broad transformations in the economies of the North Atlantic. The result has been the deterioration of those economies’s capacity to compete in the global economy, and increasing social inequality. El artículo es un análisis de la crisis económica que mira hacia sus efectos sobre las relaciones de clase social. Se comprueba que la desigualdad ha crecido de manera importante en Norte América y Gran Bretaña en la época neoliberal, y se sugiere que, desde la perspectiva del consenso político actual, la tendencia se agudiza. El posible efecto sobre el orden social poscrisis y su impacto sobre la política, están en discusión.