BRICS

Ana Garcia teaches history and international relations at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro and is an associate of the Institute of Alternative Policies in the Southern Cone of Latin America.Patrick Bond, based in South Africa since 1990 mainly at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Wits University, recently authored Elite Transition (third edition), South Africa: The Present as History (coauthored with John Saul) and Politics of Climate Justice.

“This book is a uniquely valuable resource for development scholars, students and activists. It includes outstanding contributions written by a stellar group of authors. They pierce through every aspect of the discourse around the BRICS, showing the reality beneath the politically engineered triumphalism.”—Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor of Political Economy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London“Should we celebrate the rise of the BRICS as an alternative to western imperialism? Or condemn the involved states for failing to provide an alternative to the unfettered domination of global neoliberalism, but simply modifying its form? This book is the most significant work yet published to examine these issues through a critical lens…BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Alternative is required reading for anyone concerned about what the development of the BRICS means for the global proletariat, and for the structure of the capitalist world order more generally”—James Parisot, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

• BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist CritiqueEdited by Patrick Bond and Ana GarciaTable of ContentsVersion of 16 January 2015· Ana Garcia and Patrick Bond: Introduction Part 1: Sub-imperial, inter-imperial or capitalist-imperial? · Patrick Bond: BRICS and the sub-imperial location· Mathias Luce: Sub-imperialism, the highest stage of dependent capitalism · Virginia Fontes: BRICS and capitalist-imperialism · Leo Panitch: BRICS, the G20 and American Empire· Claudio Katz: Mutations of upstream, intermediate and peripheral capitalism in the neoliberal era Part 2: BRICS ‘develop’ Africa and Latin America · Baruti Amisi, Patrick Bond, Richard Kamidza, Farai Maguwu and Bobby Peek: BRICS corporate snapshots during African extractivism· Ana Garcia and Karina Kato: The story of the hunter or the hunted? Brazil’s role in Angola and Mozambique · Omar Bonilla: Chinese oil geopolitics in the Andean region · Pedro Henrique Campos: The transnationalization of Brazilian construction companies · Judith Marshall: Behind the image of South-South solidarity at Brazil’s Vale· Einar Braathen, Celina Sørbøe and Gilmar Mascarenhas: Rio’s ruinous mega-events Part 3: BRICS within global capitalism· William Robinson: BRICS within transnational capitalism · Elmar Altvater: BRICS within fossil capitalism · Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros: Scramble, resistance and a new non-alignment strategy · Susanne Soederberg: The BRICS’ dangerous endorsement of ‘financial inclusion’ · Achin Vanaik: Future trajectories for BRICS? · Immanuel Wallerstein: Whose interests are served by the BRICS? · Patrick Bond: BRICS from above, from the middle and from below · Ana Garcia: Building BRICS from below?