Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century

A Reader of Radical Undercurrents

John Asimakopoulos, Richard Gilman-Opalsky, John Asimakopoulos, Richard Gilman-Opalsky

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781439913581, 9781439913574
• eBook ISBN: 9781439913598
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The problems of capitalism have been studied from Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty. The latter has recently confirmed that the system of capital is deeply bound up in ever-growing inequality without challenging the continuance of that system. Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century presents a diversity of analyses and visions opposed to the idea that capital should have yet another century to govern human and non-human resources in the interest of profit and accumulation. The editors and contributors to this timely volume present alternatives to the whole liberal litany of administered economies, tax policy recommendations, and half-measures. They undermine and reject the logic of capital, and the foregone conclusion that the twenty-first century should be given over to capital just as the previous two centuries were.

Providing a deep critique of capitalism, based on assessment from a wide range of cultural, social, political, and ecological thinking, Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century insists that transformative, revolutionary, and abolitionist responses to capital are even more necessary in the twenty-first century than they ever were.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century / Richard Gilman-Opalsky and John Asimakopoulos
• 1 | Theory/Praxis
• 2 | Ideology
• 3 | Class Composition and Hierarchy
• 4 | Racialization and Feminist Critique
• 5 | Critical Pedagogy
• 6 | Capitalist Culture and Cultural Production
• 7 | Language, Literature, and Art
• 8 | Ecology
• 9 | Historical Transformations
• 10 | New Modalities of Collective Action
• Contributors
• Index