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Abstract
This book is a collection of essays from some of the world's leading Marxist economists on the problems of globalisation and the evolution of modern capitalism.
With contributions from Suzanne de Brunhoff, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Ben Fine, Simon Clarke, John Holloway and John Weeks among others, it provides a cohesive critique of the weaknesses of the existing system and puts forward a new agenda for anti-capitalist thought and action.
Covering key issues such as globalisation, the nation state, money and finance, conflict and war, technological change, the environment, class struggle, economic crisis, capitalism in the Third World, the collapse of the USSR, and the transcendence of capitalism, this is an ideal introduction to some of the most pressing problems of our time.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements | vii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Part I: Capital, Exploitation and Conflict | 27 | ||
| 1. Value, Capital and Exploitation | 27 | ||
| 2. Does All Labour Create Value? | 42 | ||
| 3. Money as Money and Money as Capital in a Capitalist Economy | 59 | ||
| 4. Capitalist Competition and the Distribution of Profits | 73 | ||
| 5. Contesting Labour Markets | 82 | ||
| 6. Technological Change as Class Struggle | 94 | ||
| 7. Capitalism, Nature and the Class Struggle | 106 | ||
| Part II: Global Capitalism | 119 | ||
| 8. The History of Capitalism | 119 | ||
| 9. Globalisation and the State: Where is the Power of Capital? | 127 | ||
| 10. Financial and Industrial Capital: A New Class Coalition | 142 | ||
| 11. War, Peace and Capitalism: Is Capitalism the Harbinger of Peace or the Greatest Threat to World Peace | 152 | ||
| 12. Understanding Capitalism in the Third World | 164 | ||
| 13. Developing Country Debt and Globalisation | 175 | ||
| 14. Globalisation and the Subsumption of the Soviet Mode of Production under Capital | 187 | ||
| Part III: Crisis and the Supercession of Capitalism | 201 | ||
| 15. Capital Accumulation and Crisis | 201 | ||
| 16. Marxian Crisis Theory and the Postwar US Economy | 211 | ||
| 17. Where is Class Struggle? | 224 | ||
| 18. Transcending Capitalism: The Adequacy of Marx s Recipe | 235 | ||
| 19. Towards a Society of Free and Associated Individuals: Communism | 247 | ||
| Contributors | 259 | ||
| Index | 263 | ||
| Afghanistan 5 | 5 |