From: Asfilho@aol.com
Date: Sat Jan 04 2003 - 05:37:45 EST
Dear all, This is to announce the launch of the book below. It is already available for sale. This is a collection of outstanding essays, many of them written by OPE-L members. The main objective of this book is to present the Marxist case against capitalism for the new generation of activists and students of our day and age. There is a great deal of rejection and revolt against capitalism out there, but very little familiarity with the Marxist contribution. We have tried to help to plug this gap, and raise the interest of students, friends and activists for Marx's own work and for the contribution of Marxists across a range of areas. Please leaf through this book if you can, and see if specific chapters can be used in some of your courses, or if you can recommend it to students or friends. alfredo. ****************************************************************************** ************** Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction. Edited by Alfredo Saad-Filho, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London (London: Pluto Press, 2003). 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. The book 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 Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction - Alfredo Saad-Filho Part I: Capital, Exploitation and Conflict 1. Value, Capital and Exploitation - Alfredo Saad-Filho 2. Does All Labour Create Value? - Simon Mohun 3. Money as Money and Money as Capital in a Capitalist Economy - Costas Lapavitsas 4. Capitalist Competition and the Distribution of Profits - Diego Guerrero 5. Contesting Labour Markets - Ben Fine 6. Technological Change as Class Struggle - Les Levidow 7. Capitalism, Nature and the Class Struggle - Paul Burkett Part II: Global Capitalism 8. The History of Capitalism - Michael Perelman 9. Globalisation and the State: Where is the Power of Capital? - Ellen Meiksins Wood 10. Financial and Industrial Capital: a New Class Coalition - Suzanne de Brunhoff 11. War, Peace and Capitalism: Is Capitalism the Harbinger of Peace or the Greatest Threat to World Peace? - Christopher Cramer 12. Understanding Capitalism in the Third World - Elizabeth Dore 13. Developing Country Debt and Globalisation - John Weeks 14. Globalisation and the Subsumption of the Soviet Mode of Production under Capital - Simon Clarke Part III: Crisis and the Supersession of Capitalism 15. Capital Accumulation and Crisis - Paul Zarembka 16. Marxian Crisis Theory and the Postwar US Economy - Fred Moseley 17. Where is Class Struggle? - John Holloway 18. Transcending Capitalism: The Adequacy of Marx's Recipe - Michael Lebowitz 19. Towards a Society of Free and Associated Individuals: Communism - Paresh Chattopadhyay
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