Ebook: Against capital in the twenty-first century: a reader of radical undercurrents

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.;5.1 Beyond Dystopian Visions in the Age of Neoliberal Violence Henry A. Giroux -- 5.2 Chapman Democracy Activist Offers a Radical Critique of Capitalism: Interview with Peter McLaren Jonathan Winslow -- 5.3 Neoliberal Globalization and Resistance in Education: The Challenge of Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Constantine Skordoulis -- 5.4 Transformative Education, Critical Education, Marxist Education: Possibilities and Alternatives to the Restructuring of Education in Global Neoliberal Times Dave Hill -- 6 Capitalist Culture and Cultural Production -- 6.1 The Revolution of Everyday Life Raoul Vaneigem -- 6.2 Info-labor/Precarization Franco "Bifo" Berardi -- 6.3 Imaginal Machines Stevphen Shukaitis -- 7 Language, Literature, and Art -- 7.1 How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way Martin Espada -- 7.2 My Name Is Espada Martin Espada -- 7.3 Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913 Martin Espada -- 7.4 Factotum Charles Bukowski -- 7.5 Interview with Robert Greenwald John Asimakopoulos -- 7.6 Sound of da Police KRS-One -- 8 Ecology -- 8.1 What Is Social Ecology? Murray Bookchin -- 8.2 Socialism and Ecology James O'Connor -- 8.3 Why Primitivism? John Zerzan -- 8.4 In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism Isabelle Stengers -- 9 Historical Transformations 9.1 Conflict Groups, Group Conflicts, and Social Change Ralf Dahrendorf -- 9.2 Debt: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber -- 9.3 When the Future Began Franco "Bifo" Berardi -- 9.4 Post-Fordist, American Fascism Angela Mitropoulos -- 10 New Modalities of Collective Action -- 10.1 From Globalization to Resistance Staughton Lynd -- 10.2 Platform for a Provisional Opposition Guy Debord -- 10.3 The Temporary Autonomous Zone Hakim Bey -- 10.4 The Conscience of a Hacker The Mentor -- 10.5 Horizontalism and Territory: From Argentina and Occupy to Nuit Debout and Beyond Marina Sitrin -- Contributors -- Index;Introduction: Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century Richard Gilman-Opalsky John Asimakopoulos -- 1 Theory/Praxis 1.1 Think Hope, Think Crisis John Holloway -- 1.2 The New Spaces of Freedom Felix Guattari -- 1.3 The Theory of State-Capitalism: The Soviet Union as Capitalist Society Raya Dunayevskaya -- 1.4 Death, Freedom, and the Disintegration of Communism Raya Dunayevskaya -- 1.5 Revolution and Counterrevolution in Hungary Raya Dunayevskaya -- 1.6 Dialectics: The Algebra of Revolution Raya Dunayevskaya -- 2 Ideology -- 2.1 Socialism or Barbarism Cornelius Castoriadis -- 2.2 Ideology Materialized Guy Debord -- 2.3 American "Common Sense" Fredy Perlman -- 2.4 Radical Learning through Neoliberal Crisis Sayres Rudy -- 3 Class Composition and Hierarchy -- 3.1 Karl Marx's Model of the Class Society Ralf Dahrendorf -- 3.2 Sex, Race, and Class Selma James -- 3.3 Wageless of the World Selma James -- 3.4 Hierarchy of Wages and Incomes Cornelius Castoriadis -- 3.5 A Brief Rant against Work: With Particular Attention to the Relation of Work to White Supremacy, Sexism, and Miserabilism Penelope Rosemont -- 4 Racialization and Feminist Critique -- 4.1 The Lived Experience of the Black Man Frantz Fanon -- 4.2 The Negro's Fight: Negroes, We Can Depend Only on Ourselves! C.L.R. James -- 4.3 Harlem Negroes Protest Jim Crow Discrimination C.L.R. James -- 4.4 Feminism and the Politics of the Common in an Era of Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici -- 4.5 #BlackLivesMatter Alicia Garza -- 5 Critical Pedagogy