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A Crisis of Capitalism.


The text " A Crisis of Capitalism" is a nespaper article written by Riccardo Bellofiore. The article start with a Marx's quotation: " history repeats itself, first at tragedy, then as farce". Next Bellofiore deal with Italian policy: he describe Italian politicians as comedians, and the prime minister as a joke. After that he focuses his attention on Eurozone countries' problems like "single currency" that isn't backed by political sovereignty.In the third paragraph the journalist write that Italy's crisis is not Italian born, and Eurpean crisis is not home-grown. In the article the journalist deal with his own opinion that employers are the most damaged from Capitalis crisis. He uses information to have a reference to understeand the crisis. The Italian crisis become a case studing to convince the readers. So the reader has to analyze the situation from a global point of view. Carency seems to be more valid in Europe's north countries then sud ones, and it seems that Germany advantages of that situation.