Poverty, grants, revolution and 'real Utopias': society must be defended by any and all means necessary!
Firoz Khan
Review of African Political Economy, 2013, vol. 40, issue 138, 572-588
Abstract:
The South African social security system is globally lauded for pioneering new conceptions of society and social assistance, and is celebrated as offering the world an alternative to mainstream social policy. What then accounts for better outcomes in poverty and inequality reduction in countries with similar social security systems? The paper locates the 'diminishing progressivity' of the South African system in the interlocking dynamics of structural violence, structural exclusion, racialised nationalism, financialisation and the subversion of democracy. The massive rebellion in the streets against the rule of rich and property is a reflection of the poor losing hope and patience.
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2013.854035
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