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Book SynopsisTaking a novel historical materialist approach to understanding the internal relations of global capitalism, global war, and global crisis, this book captures capital's connection to the states-system of uneven and combined development, social reproduction, and the contradictions facing humanity within world ecology to produce a text that will appeal to scholars and students alike.
Trade Review'A glorious debate on ways of seeing capital and state hegemony as relational and material, from global capitalism in China, to global war in Iraq and the new Bomb-and-Build imperialism, to global crisis in the Eurozone. Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton deliver a rigorous and uncompromising geopolitical text. They also honour the insights of ecological and reproduction feminists on appropriation-accumulation by non-economic means-identifying expanded forms of class struggle emergent today in the grassroots contestation of neoliberalism.' Ariel Salleh, University of Sydney
'Marx's dialectics prioritise the relational and evolving qualities of literally everything over the logically separate and static parts into which most people divide our world. The authors of this book give dialectics the attention it deserves in understanding global capitalism, taking you on a mind-stretching voyage you do not want to miss. Highly recommended.' Bertell Ollman, New York University
'As tensions and confrontations rise, it is incumbent upon us to understand the intrinsic relations of global capitalism, global war, and global crisis. Feminist political economists share with historical materialists the concern for the increasing reach of capitalist exploitation within households, states, at the border and in zones of conflict and post-conflict. A holistic, explanatory account has never been more important and Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton have produced that account for our time. All serious analysts of world order looking for answers about 'how we got here' and 'where we are going' should take heed.' Jacqui True, Monash University, Melbourne
'Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton offer an original, tightly-argued and extraordinarily rich analytical panorama of the emergence and unevenness of global capitalism, the geopolitical conflicts entailed, and its crisis conditions provoking sources of resistance. The ground-breaking approach developed in this book will shape debates in and beyond political economy for years to come.' Alfredo Saad-Filho, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Table of Contents1. A Necessarily historical materialist moment; 2. The centrality of class struggle; 3. The material structure of ideology; 4. Capitalist expansion, uneven and combined development and passive revolution; 5. The geopolitics of global capitalism; 6. Exploitation and resistance; 7. Global capitalism and rising powers; 8. Global war and the new imperialism; 9. Global crisis and trouble in the eurozone; 10. Ruptures in and beyond global capitalism, global war, global crisis.
