- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
"Geoff Mann is a new breed of monkey-wrencher. He knows that contemporary capitalism has a perverse habit of dismantling itself and gives us a toolkit to build a new, more socially just edifice."—Andy Merrifield, Magical Marxism
"Insightful and incisive, thoughtful and thorough, filled with new avenues for thinking about resistence. Pass this one by at your own peril."—Matt Hern, Common Ground in a Liquid City
To imagine how we might change capitalism, we first need to understand it. To succeed in actually changing it, we need to be able to explain how it works and convince others that change is both possible and necessary. Disassembly Required is an attempt to meet those challenges, and to offer clear, accessible alternatives to the status quo of everyday capitalism.
Originally crafted as a comprehensive overview for younger readers, Geoff Mann's explanation of the fundamental features of contemporary capitalism is illustrated with real-world examples?an ideal introduction for anyone wanting to learn more about what capitalism is and where it falls short. What emerges is an anti-capitalist critique that fully understands the complex, dynamic, robust organizational machine of modern economic life, digging deep into the details of capitalist institutions and the relations that justify them to unearth the politically indefensible and ecologically unsustainable premises that underlie them.
Geoff Mann teaches political economy and economic geography at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Centre for Global Political Economy. He is the author of Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers and the Political Economy of the American West (2007) and a frequent contributor to Historical Materialism and New Left Review.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright Information
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1
- 1. An Introduction to Actually Existing Capitalism
- 2. Capitalist Political Economy: Smith to Marx to Keynes and Beyond
- 3. State Power and the Power of Money
- 4. Markets, Contracts, and Firms
- Part 2
- 5. The Long Boom and the Longer Downturn
- 6. From the Rise of Finance to the Subprime Crisis
- 7. Disassembly Required, or, This Will Not Be Easy
- Index
- About the Author
- Support AK Press
- Praise for Disassembly Required