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Introduction:

In human history, we have seen several economic systems. The materialistic approach to history describes these in a progression - from primitive societies to slave societies to feudal societies to capitalist societies to socialist societies and finally to communist societies. Each with its own contradictions, means of production and superstructure. However, common for all of them is the basic contradiction between man and nature.

Today, capitalism is the prevailing global economic structure.

More and more wealth is in the hands of private corporations that often have an economy larger than many nation states.

At the same time, more and more people have a hard time to get by.

To many people it is increasingly clear, that capitalism is unable to solve the huge issues facing human kind now and in the future; how to use our common resources to provide a good living for all human beings, to stop wars, to mitigate and adapt to global warming and climate change, to take care of the new generations, and many more issues.

&nbsp;In this task you will look at the signs of deepening economic crisis of capitalist globalization and debate what this could mean for the future.

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This task is scheduled for 3 hours. 
We recommend that you read these three article together in the team or in groups of 2-3 and discuss the answers to the questions below. 
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	<li>Read the article: &ldquo;The deepening economic crisis of capitalist globalization&rdquo;, OWU 2015.</li>
	<li>Read the article: &ldquo;Radical new economic system will emerge from collapse of Capitalism&rdquo;, by Jeremy Rifkin, The Guardian, November 2014.</li>
	<li>Read the article: &ldquo;The end of capitalism has begun&rdquo;, The Guardian book review of books by Allen Lane and Paul Mason, December 2015.</li>
	<li>Discuss and deliberate the questions:</li>
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	<li>What characterize global capitalism?</li>
	<li>What are the signs of deepening economic crisis?</li>
	<li>Will capitalism be able to solve the big issues facing humans and the planet? Why/why not?</li>
	<li>What economic structures hold a future in your opinion? Why?</li>
	<li>What are the signs of people establishing new economic structures within the capitalist economic system?</li>
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