The Revolution of Capitalist Relations Induced by the Technological Revolution of Electronics

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[1] Anievas, A. 2008. “Theories of a Global State: A Critique.” Historical Materialism 16 (2): 167–206.

[2] Arthur, W. B. 2017. “Where Is Technology Taking the Economy?” McKinsey Quarterly . Accessed February 7, 2018. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analytics/our-insights/where-is-technology-taking-the-economy.

[3] Brar, H. 1997. Imperialism: Decadent, Parasitic, Moribund Capitalism . London: Harpal Brar.

[4] Brar, H. 2007. Imperialism: The Eve of the Social Revolution of the Proletariat . London: Harpal Brar.

[5] Brar, H., and E. Rule. 2013. Imperialism and the Worst-Ever Crisis of Overproduction . London: Harpal Brar.

[6] Brynjolfsson, E., and A. McAfee. 2014. The Second Machine Age . New York: W.W. Norton.

[7] Callinicos, A. 2014. Deciphering Capital . London: Bookmarks Publications.

[8] Castells, M. 1996. The Information Age , vol. 1. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

[9] Castells, M. 1997. The Information Age , vol. 2. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

[10] Castells, M. 1998. The Information Age , vol. 3. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

[11] Chan, K. 2015. “Automation Sweeps China's Factory Floors.” Shanghai Daily , September 26, p. 11.

[12] Chui, M., J. Manyika, and M. Miremadi. 2016. “Where Machines Could Replace Humans—And Where They Can't (Yet).” McKinsey Quarterly . Accessed February 7, 2018. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/where-machines-could-replace-humans-and-where-they-cant-yet.

[13] Dicken, P. 2015. Global Shift . 7th ed. New York: The Guilford Press.

[14] Edin, K. J., and H. L. Shaefer. 2015. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

[15] Forbes . 2015. “Forbes Billionaires.” Accessed February 7, 2018. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2015/03/02/forbes-billionaires-full-list-of-the-500-richest-people-in-the-world-2015/#7cc2b2d345b9.

[16] Ford, M. 2015. Rise of the Robots . New York: Basic Books.

[17] Fortune . 2017. “The Fortune 500.” Accessed February 7, 2018. http://beta.fortune.com/fortune500/list.

[18] Frey, C. B., and M. A. Osborne. 2013. “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerization?” Accessed February 7, 2018. https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf.

[19] Harris, J. 2016. Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy . Atlanta: Clarity Press.

[20] Harvey, D. 2003. The New Imperialism . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[21] Hudson, M. 2015. Killing the Host . Petrol, CA: Counterpunch Books.

[22] Lapavitsas, C. 2009. “Financialized Capitalism: Crisis and Financial Expropriation.” Historical Materialism 17 (2): 114–148.

[23] Lapavitsas, C. 2013. Profiting without Producing . New York: Verso.

[24] Lenin, V. I. 1916. Imperialism and the Split in Socialism . Accessed February 7, 2018. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/oct/x01.htm.

[25] Lenin, V. I. (1917) 1977. “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.” In Lenin Selected Works , edited by V. I. Lenin, vol. 1, 634–731. Moscow: Progress Publishers.

[26] Longman, P. 2007. Best Care Anywhere . Sausalito, CA: PoliPointPress.

[27] Marx, K. (1859) 1970. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy . Moscow: Progress Publishers.

[28] Marx, K. 1974. Capital . New York: International Publishers.

[29] Nkrumah, K. 1966. Neo-colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism . New York: International Publishers.

[30] Oxfam International. 2017. “Just 8 Men Own the Same Wealth as Half the World.” Accessed February 7, 2018. https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2017-01-16/just-8-men-own-same-wealth-half-world.

[31] Parry, B. E., and L. Brody. 2008. “The Decline of the Proletariat and the Transformation of the Working Class.” Accessed February 7, 2018. https://independent.academia.edu/BruceParry.

[32] Peery, N. 1993. Entering an Epoch of Social Revolution . Chicago: Workers Press.

[33] Rifkin, J. 1995. The End of Work . New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

[34] Robinson, W. 2014. Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity . New York: Cambridge University Press.

[35] Rodrik, D. 2015. “Premature Deindustrialization.” Working paper from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Accessed February 12, 2018. https://www.sss.ias.edu/files/papers/econpaper107.pdf.

[36] Schwab, K. 2016. The Fourth Industrial Revolution . Geneva: World Economic Forum.

[37] Shaikh, A. 2016. Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[38] Smith, J. 2016. Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, Globalization, Super-Exploitation and Capitalism's Final Crises . New York: Monthly Review Press.

[39] Toffler, A. 1980. The Third Wave . New York: Bantam Books.

[40] Wikipedia. 2017. “BlackRock.” Accessed February 7, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock.

[41] Wood, E. M. 2003. Empire of Capital . New York: Verso.

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