Confronting Capitalism in the 21st Century

Chapter 1 Introduction: Confronting Capitalism—Lessons from Marx’s Capital

Chapter 2 Marx’s ‘Ultimate Aim’ in Writing Capital Was…

Chapter 3 Marx and Commodity Fetishism: Some Remarks on Method

Chapter 4 Late Marx and the Conception of “Accumulation of Capital”

Chapter 5 Form Analysis, Space, and Spatial Struggle

Chapter 7 Value Forms and the Structure of the Capitalist System

Chapter 8 Marx’s Musings on Financial Crises: Credit and Crises in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Gold Standard

Chapter 9 Marx on Financial Intermediation: The Promise of Money as Command Over Future Labor

Chapter 10 The Ambiguous Role of China’s Collective Land Ownership Under Global Capitalism

Chapter 11 Beyond the “Pink Tide”: Dependent Capitalism in Crisis in Argentina and Lessons to Be Learned for Radical Social Change

Chapter 12 The Final Fiction: Madoff Clawback Suits and Their Implications for Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 13 Navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of Precarious Work: Through the Storm of Contingency

Chapter 14 What If Our Schools Are Working? Base, Superstructure, and Hegemony in Education

Chapter 15 Demographic Changes, Pension Reforms, and Absolute Surplus Value: Intertemporal Exploitation in Contemporary Capitalism?

Chapter 16 Readings of Capital : A Starting Point for Reinventing Socialist Politics?