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Book SynopsisA primer for how to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century
Trade Review'David Harvey is an inspiration for me, and for people who desperately want a just world order. One of the most perceptive and intelligent thinkers the progressive movement has'
-- Owen Jones
'David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals'
-- Naomi Klein
Table of ContentsPreface - Jordan T. Camp
Editors’ Note - Jordan T. Camp and Chris Caruso
Author’s Note - David Harvey
Acknowledgements
1. Global Unrest
2. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
3. Contradictions of Neoliberalism
4. The Financialization of Power
5. The Authoritarian Turn
6. Socialism and Freedom
7. The Significance of China in the World Economy
8. The Geopolitics of Capitalism
9. The Growth Syndrome
10. The Erosion of Consumer Choices
11. Primitive or Original Accumulation
12. Accumulation by Dispossession
13. Production and Realization
14. Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Climate Change
15. Rate versus Mass of Surplus Value
16. Alienation
17. Alienation at Work: The Politics of a Plant Closure
18. Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19
19. The Collective Response to a Collective Dilemma
Discussion Questions and Further Readings
Index
