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Community
Re-Education
African
ECONOMIC
HUMANISM
Dr Mfuniselwa Bhengu, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
n developing my argument I then the cause of degradation. which his social existence is
rode on the broad shoulders The economic process may, embodied. The result is loss
Iof Karl Polanyi’s work (The naturally, supply the vehicle of self-respect, whether the
Great Transformation, (1944). of destruction, and almost process springs from “culture
Polanyi made a clarion call that invariably economic inferiority conflict” or from the change in
was not heeded, when he said: will make the weaker yield, a position of a class within the
“Not economic exploitation, but the immediate cause of his confines of society”.
as often assumed, but the undoing is not for that reason
disintegration of the cultural economic; it lies in the lethal Ascendancy of Western
environment of the victim is injury to the institutions in Capitalism
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