{"product_id":"capitalism-and-reparations-a-struggle-for-the-survival-of-humanity","title":"Capitalism and Reparations: A Struggle for the Survival of Humanity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNora Wittmann's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCapitalism and Reparations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows her groundbreaking first book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eReparations Time is Now\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in which she demolished the ex-enslavers' argument that there would be no right to reparations because \"slavery\" would have been \"legal”. Our current euro-centric world order of capitalism is illegal, having been built on illegal and sustained acts of genocide, enslavement, resource plunder, violations of sovereignty, and terror, and being dependent to this day on structures laid centuries ago. As an international law expert, Nora Wittmann demonstrates how the claim to global Afrikan reparations, if pursued and carried out as required by international law and the meaning of the term reparations, includes the abolition of capitalism. Since its start with transatlantic slavery, capitalism as a world system has relied on expansion and maximization of profit, no matter the real costs, since these were and are outsourced to \"other\" people and future generations. Now humanity has reached a point where we are faced with disaster all around. The world system that is causing this havoc was established during transatlantic slavery and continues to operate violently under the same dynamics and structures today. Reparations must address the mindset of ever-more, ever-bigger, ever-greater, the euro-centric capitalistic mantra of economic growth that has been fed to us as sacrosanct, as if it were a natural necessity for survival, when in reality it destroys Earth as our habitat and has its roots in transatlantic slavery. The anti-life system of capitalism has always relied on Afrikan resources. If Afrikan people were to effect the reparations due, starting with of the cessation of the continued crime, capitalism would be finished.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NORA WITTMANN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45664227197104,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/CAP2.jpg?v=1791211202","url":"https:\/\/www.umojabooks.com\/products\/capitalism-and-reparations-a-struggle-for-the-survival-of-humanity","provider":"Umoja House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}