Andreas Malm - Long Waves of Fossil Development: Periodizing Energy and Capital : Mediations : Journal of the Marxist Literary Group
▻http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/long-waves#endref_23
Among the many preconditions for a fifth long wave, Mandel proposed the following: “In order to drive up the rate of profit to the extent necessary to change the whole economic climate, under the conditions of capitalism, the capitalists must first decisively break the organizational strength and militancy of the working class in the key industrialized countries." Did computer technology assist them in that battle? If so, how was it connected to the increased combustion of fossil fuels? An exhaustive inquiry is far beyond the scope of this essay: here I offer a crude hypothesis.
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