ANTI-CAPITALISM: A MARXIST INTRODUCTION; ED. BY ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO

‘A timely and worthwhile project ... will fill a major hole in the currently available literature.’ Professor Duncan Foley, Professor of Economics, New School University, NY Political protests against neoliberal globalisation, corporate power and the inequities of contemporary capitalism are increasing all the time. Demonstrations in Seattle, Prague, Genoa and elsewhere have fuelled the debate on the possibility of a radically different future. 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 Introduction / Alfredo Saad-filho -- Part 1. Capital, Exploitation And Conflict. Value, Capital And Exploitation / Alfredo Saad-filho -- Does All Labour Create Value? / Simon Mohun -- Money As Money And Money As Capital In A Capitalist Economy / Costas Lapavitsas -- Capitalist Competition And The Distribution Of Profits / Diego Guerrero -- Contesting Labour Markets / Ben Fine -- Technological Change As Class Struggle / Les Levidow -- Capitalism, Nature And The Class Struggle / Paul Burkett -- Part 2. Global Capitalism. The History Of Capitalism / Michael Perelman -- Globalism And The State: Where Is The Power Of Capital? / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- Financial And Industrial Capital: A New Class Coalition / Suzanne De Brunhoff -- War, Peace And Capitalism: Is Capitalism The Harbringer Of Peace Or The Greatest Threat To World Peace? / Christopher Cramer -- Understanding Capitalism In The Third World / Elizabeth Dore -- Developing Country Debt And Globalisation / John Weeks -- Globalisation And The Subsumption Of The Soviet Mode Of Production Under Capital / Simon Clarke -- Part 3. Crisis And The Supercession Of Capitalism. Capital Accumulation And Crisis / Paul Zarembka -- Marxian Crisis Theory And The Postwar Us Economy / Fred Moseley -- Where Is Class Struggle? / John Holloway -- Transcending Capitalism: The Adequacy Of Marx's Recipe / Michael Lebowitz -- Towards A Society Of Free And Associated Individuals: Communism / Paresh Chattopadhaya. Edited By Alfredo Saad-filho. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Political protests against neo-liberal globalization, corporate power and the inequities of contemporary capitalism are increasing all the time. Demonstrations in Seattle, Prague, Genoa and elsewhere have fuelled the debate on the possibility of a radicallly different future. This is a collection of essays from leading Marxist economists on the problems of globalization and the evolution of modern capitalism. It provides a cohesive critique of the weaknesses of the existing system and puts forward an agenda for anti-capitalist thought and action If you lift your eyes from this page for a moment, you can see commodities everywhere.