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"The current world depression is a product of the 'over-accumulation' process of the capitalist system in which the crash of the financial system was the 'detonator' but not the structural determinant: the exploitation of labor" that sooner or later bites back.
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"The current world depression is a product of the 'over-accumulation' process of the capitalist system in which the crash of the financial system was the 'detonator' but not the structural determinant: the exploitation of labor" that sooner or later bites back.
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The crisis is rooted in a classic crisis of over-accumulation and declining profitability in the advanced economies.
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The crisis is rooted in a classic crisis of over-accumulation and declining profitability in the advanced economies.
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The current global economic crisis was rooted in capitalist over-accumulation which dated back over the last quarter of a century, the SA Communist Party said on Monday.
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Nothing was said about the pastor's plans for the future, or about his continued connection with the church, and the inquisitive sisterhood was on the point of exploding from an over-accumulation of unanswered questions.
Polly of the Circus Margaret Mayo 1916
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Nothing was said about the pastor's plans for the future, or about his continued connection with the church, and the inquisitive sisterhood was on the point of exploding from an over-accumulation of unanswered questions.
Polly of the Circus 1908
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Concentration will put a constant check upon over-accumulation of facts, and will rather seek to strengthen an idea by association with familiar things than to add a new fact to it.
The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Charles Alexander McMurry 1893
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It recurs with cyclical constancy through various moments of established capitalism when those moments run into a crisis of 'over-accumulation' that threatens the continuance of the system.
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On the contrary, inflation is, as we shall see later, sure to lead to a real and not merely imaginary over-accumulation, so that imperialism would be apt to intensify over-accumulation rather than to ease it. (b) To pay for additional imports, with the sole result that home goods are now replaced by foreign goods, without the problem of surplus production being brought any nearer to solution.
Red Liberal 2010
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