{"product_id":"capitalism-9781629637877","title":"Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor years Abdullah Öcalan has unraveled the sources of \nhierarchical relations, power, and the formation of nation-states that \nhas led to capitalism’s emergence and global domination.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cem\u003eCapitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings\u003c\/em\u003e is the second volume of his definitive five-volume work \u003cem\u003eThe Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization\u003c\/em\u003e. \nHe makes the convincing argument that capitalism is not a product of the\n last four hundred years but a continuation of classical civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike Marx, Öcalan sides with Braudel by giving less importance to \nthe mode of production than to the accumulation of surplus value and \npower, thus centering his criticisms on the capitalist nation-state as \nthe most powerful monopoly of economic, military, and ideological power.\n He argues that the fundamental strength of capitalist hegemony, \nhowever, is the competition in voluntary servitude that a market economy\n has given rise to—not a single worker would reject higher \nwages—resulting in an unprecedented ability to convince people to \nsurrender their individual power and autonomy. Öcalan further contends \nthat the capitalist phase of city-class-state-based civilization is not \nthe last phase of human intelligence; rather, the traditional morals \nupon which it is based are being exhausted and the intelligence of \nfreedom is rising in all its richness. That is why he prefers to \ninterpret capitalist modernity as the era of hope—but only insofar as we\n are able to develop a sustainable defense against it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abdullah Öcalan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286835802363,"sku":"9781629637877","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781629637877.jpg?v=1772485562","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/capitalism-9781629637877","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}