Anti-Capitalism

Lecio Morais is economics adviser at the Lower House of the Brazilian Parliament. He has published widely on political economy, with a focus on Brazilian financial institutions. He is the author of Brazil (Pluto, 2017) and Anti-Capitalism (Pluto, 2002).Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of International Relations at Queen's University Belfast. Previously, he was Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. His books include Marx's Capital, Neoliberalism: A Reader, Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction and Brazil: Neoliberalism versus Democracy.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction by Alfredo Saad-FilhoPart I: Capital, Exploitation and Conflict1. Value, Capital and Exploitation by Alfredo Saad-Filho2. Does All Labour Create Value? by Simon Mohun3. Money as Money and Money as Capital in a Capitalist Economy by Costas Lapavitsas4. Capitalist Competition and the Distribution of Profits by Diego Guerrero5. Contesting Labour Markets by Ben Fine6. Technological Change as Class Struggle by Les Levidow7. Capitalism, Nature and the Class Struggle by Paul BurkettPart II: Global Capitalism8. The History of Capitalism by Michael Perelman9. Globalisation and the State: Where is the Power of Capital? by Ellen Meiksins Wood10. Financial and Industrial Capital: a New Class Coalition by Suzanne de Brunhoff11. War, Peace and Capitalism: Is Capitalism the Harbinger of Peace or the Greatest Threat to World Peace? by Christopher Cramer12. Understanding Capitalism in the Third World by Elizabeth Dore13. Developing Country Debt and Globalisation by John Weeks14. Globalisation and the Subsumption of the Soviet Mode of Production under Capital by Simon ClarkePart III: Crisis and the Supersession of Capitalism15. Capital Accumulation and Crisis by Paul Zarembka16. Marxian Crisis Theory and the Postwar US Economy by Fred Moseley17. Where is Class Struggle? by John Holloway18. Transcending Capitalism: The Adequacy of Marx’s Recipe by Michael Lebowitz19. Towards a Society of Free and Associated Individuals: Communism by Paresh ChattopadhyayList of ContributorsIndex