Ali Kadri teaches at Sun Yatsen university. His recent books include The Cordon Sanitaire: A Single Law Governing Development in East Asia and the Arab World, Imperialism with Reference to Syria, and The Unmaking of Arab Socialism.

• 1 The Accumulation of Waste1 Introduction2 Situating Waste in Imperialism3 De-reproduction as Accumulation4 The Bomb as Pure Waste5 Absurd and Sane Alternatives6 Apportioning Waste7 Whither Subject8 Issues of Waste Measurement9 Class-Unmeasured10 Eurocentrism11 Conclusion2 Imperialism and Waste1 Imperialism with Reference the Arab Region2 History Omitted3 War and Historical Surplus Value4 Brinksmanship without Organised Labour5 Militarism versus Military Spending6 The War Event7 On Imperialism and Essence8 Money or the Veneer of Value9 The Military Landscape and China10 Actual and Potential War11 The Western Marxist Position on War12 Closing Comment3 Against Empiricism1 The Empiricism of Harvey2 Diluted Imperialism3 Concretising Some Forms of Capital4 Excessive Entropy5 A Periodised Imperialism6 The Persistence of Waste7 Lenin’s Imperialism8 Misinterpreted Imperialism9 Imperialism and Nature10 Imperialism and Dead Labour11 Waste and Living Labour12 Waste in Social Time13 Waste and Technology4 Value and Space1 Forms of Exploitation2 Substance and Value3 The Terms of Trade and Value4 From Value to Waste5 Imperialism Thingified and Actuated by Price Signals6 The Physical Limits of Value7 War as Social Production8 Waste and the Global Division of Labour9 Excess Population and Carrying Capacity10 The Not So Innocent Omissions11 The Negativity of Capital12 Revisiting the Elusive Measures of Value13 Class and Space14 Overproduction and Space15 A Portrait of Control5 US-led Capital is the Only Imperialism1 Re-Theorising Imperialism2 Value Reconsidered3 Philosophy contra Value4 The Time in Value5 The Struggle for Time6 Abstract Time Mis-Defined7 Productivity and Productive Labour8 The Positivist/Pragmatic Method as Rationale for Imperialism9 Value and the National Boundary10 Class Institutions and Waste11 Dollar Hegemony and War12 The War Terrain13 China Is Not Imperialist14 Reproduction by Waste6 Waste is at the Origin of Capital1 Development Redefined2 The Origins of Equity in Development3 Equality and Development in Islam4 Expansion by Economic as Opposed to Religious Zeal5 The East in the Economic Backwater6 The Consumption of Commodities by Commodities7 Involution and the AMP8 England Piloting Capitalism9 Production Relations Define Exchange10 A Restless Islamic World11 The Infanticide of Early Eastern/Islamic Development12 Thingified Institutions13 Islamic Wealth and the Transition14 Moneyed Capitalism contra Feudalism15 Islam’s Cosy Relationship with Materialist Philosophy and Commerce16 Closing Comment7 The Absurd is Real1 The Negative Dialectic2 Waste as Entropy3 Waste in Social Reproduction4 Self-Reinforcing Waste5 Waste as Essence-Appearance6 False Value7 Class Cannibalism8 The Analytics of Resistance9 Back to Basics10 Resist to ExistIndex