Why Do 100,000 People Starve Every Day?
Initiating from the bothersome question why 100,000 people starve every day of
the consequences of undernourishment and in view of the widespread certainty that
the UN millennium goals will also not change anything here, this book examines
the reasons for this problem.
Under the slogan “globalization,” the prevailing economic system of
the leading industrial powers every day creates the constraints due to which,
aside from “help to self-help,” nothing can be done for the losers of
the competition. Despite the wonders of technology in the
21st century, global hunger, no access to clean water for one sixth of
humanity, bitter poverty, and miserable working conditions are a normal part of
the global economic system. Not only in the so-called developing countries, but
in the successful industrial nations as well, the official poverty reports point
up the growing discrepancy between what is shown as the wealth of the nation in
the gross national product and calculated as per capita income and that what the
majority of the population gets from this. In the market economy, old-age
poverty, child poverty, unemployment, education and health care crises cannot be
avoided for economic reasons, for ensuring national competitiveness. The question
of the alternative to these achievements of the global market economy begins with
the critique of the political economy.
The classic of this critical analysis – “Capital” by Karl Marx – thus inevitably enjoys a renaissance. The guy got it right!