In a complementary article to Cleaver's discussion of the debt crisis in Capital & Class 39, Bond considers the explosive growth of debt in us finance and the populist campaigns ranged against this new financial power. Bond suggests that the bases of new local, national and international coalitions to refuse the imposition of the costs of devaluation onto exploited groups can be seen in these campaigns.
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