About this site and me I'm Bill Geddes, a retired social anthropologist. Over a fairly lengthy lifetime (a septuagenarian) I have time and again been confronted by the need to understand and explain the impact of capitalism on the people and communities I have worked in and tried to understand. The ideas and information presented here are a product of that fifty year exploration. Nothing I say here should be considered the 'final word' or 'the answer' to any of the problems I address or issues I attempt to explain. My hope is that they will stimulate interested and concerned people to further explore and expand their own understanding of the nature, history and both social and environmental consequences of capitalism. I sincerely believe that unregulated internationalized capitalism, as it is practiced at the start of the 21st century, is inimical to the well-being of communities of people wherever they might live or whatever they might believe and understand about the world in which they live. Capitalism must be regulated and subordinated to the needs of communities. In the present global order, globalized capitalism has subordinated communities to its requirements and interests, effectively reducing them to a 'workforce' and 'consumer base' for its activities and products.

Capitalism Blog Site

Why ‘Third World’ and why ‘development’?

Articles:

Pre-empting Henry Hyde's Nightmare

Global Capitalism: The Exploited Planet, the Torrent of Garbage and The Warnings

The History and Nature of Capitalism - The Book

• Book Chapters:
• Introduction
• Ideology, The World Economic System and Revitalization Movements
• An Explanation and History of the Emergence of Capitalism
• How Born Again Christians Rescued Capitalism
• The Virtuous Capitalist, The Poor and the Wasteland
• Capitalism and Work: the White Man's Burden
• Capitalism and its Colonies
• Global economic forces, Western realities
• Global Capitalism, Third World Development
• Epilogue – What Drives Western People to Commoditize their World?
• Addendum: We're All Equal! Independence and Exchange

Links:

Jeremy Geddes Art

Renee Rutherfurd Music

Complete Home Library application (a free 'Windows' application [written by me] which includes an HTML Reader for use in reading these entries on your own computer)