{"product_id":"capital-and-its-discontents-9781604863345","title":"Capital and Its Discontents","description":"\u003cp\u003eCapitalism is stumbling, empire is faltering, and the planet is thawing. Yet many people are still grasping to understand these multiple crises and to find a way forward to a just future. Into the breach come the essential insights of \u003cem\u003eCapital and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e, which cut through the gristle to get to the heart of the matter about the nature of capitalism and imperialism, capitalism’s vulnerabilities at this conjuncture—and what can we do to hasten its demise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of incisive conversations with some of the most eminent thinkers and political economists on the Left—including David Harvey, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Mike Davis, Leo Panitch, Tariq Ali, and Noam Chomsky—\u003cem\u003eCapital and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the dynamic contradictions undergirding capitalism and the potential for its dethroning. The book challenges conventional wisdom on the Left about the nature of globalization, neoliberalism, and imperialism, as well as the agrarian question in the Global South. It probes deeply into the roots of the global economic meltdown, the role of debt and privatization in dampening social revolt, and considers capitalism’s dynamic ability to find ever new sources of accumulation—whether through imperial or ecological plunder or the commodification of previously unpaid female labor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Left luminaries in \u003cem\u003eCapital and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e look at potential avenues out of the mess—as well as wrong turns and needless detours—drawing lessons from the history of post-colonial states in the Global South, struggles against imperialism past and present, the eternal pendulum swing of radicalism, the corrosive legacy of postmodernism, and the potentialities of the radical humanist tradition. At a moment when capitalism as a system is more reviled than ever, here is an indispensable toolbox of ideas for action by some of the most brilliant thinkers of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull list of Interviewees:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNoam Chomsky is a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics and Chomsky is one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. His recent books include \u003cem\u003eWho Rules the World?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHopes and Prospects\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTariq Ali is a historian, novelist, and filmmaker, and the author of many books. He is a member of the editorial committee of the \u003cem\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/em\u003e and a contributor to the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMike Davis is an urban theorist, historian, and political activist, author of many works including \u003cem\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/em\u003e. He is an editor of the \u003cem\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/em\u003e and received a MacArthur Fellowship Award and the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEllen Meiksins Wood, for many years professor of political science at York University, Toronto, is the author of a number of books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Origin of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCitizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a pioneering radical geographer. He has written numerous books and is among the 20 most cited authors in the humanities.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeo Panitch teaches political economy at York University in Toronto and is coeditor of the \u003cem\u003eSocialist Register\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eIn and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives\u003c\/em\u003e, published by PM Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoug Henwood is editor of \u003cem\u003eLeft Business Observer\u003c\/em\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAfter the New Economy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWall Street: How It Works and for Whom\u003c\/em\u003e, and a contributing editor to \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA South African native, Gillian Hart is professor of geography at UC Berkeley and the author of \u003cem\u003eDisabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Bellamy Foster is the editor of the independent socialist magazine \u003cem\u003eMonthly Review\u003c\/em\u003e and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He is the coauthor, among other works, of \u003cem\u003eThe Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUrsula Huws is the editor of the international interdisciplinary journal \u003cem\u003eWork Organisation, Labour and Globalisation\u003c\/em\u003e, and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid McNally is professor of political science at York University in Toronto and the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eGlobal Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e, published by PM Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJason W. Moore is a research fellow at the Department of Human Geography at Lund University, Sweden.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVivek Chibber is professor of sociology at New York University and the author of \u003cem\u003eLocked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Sanbonmatsu teaches philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making? of a New Political Subject\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrej Grubačić is a dissident from the Balkans. A radical historian and sociologist, he is the coauthor of \u003cem\u003eWobblies and Zapatistas\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eDon’t Mourn, Balkanize!\u003c\/em\u003e (both from PM Press).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Sasha Lilley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286859100411,"sku":"9781604863345","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781604863345.jpg?v=1772485289","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/capital-and-its-discontents-9781604863345","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}