Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Confusion of Capitalist Structures
1. Capital 1867/ Kristin Plys - Foundations of a Critique of Capitalist Theories
2. 1844 Manuscripts/ Charles Lemert - Capitalism’s Deadly Labor Process
I. Macro-Historical Theories of Capitalism
3. Frantz Fanon/ Immanuel Wallerstein - The Modern World and Capitalism, 1500-1991
4. Fernand Braudel/ Andre Gunder Frank - The Modern World System: Europe or Asia?
5. David Ricardo/ Janet Abu Lughod - Long Distance Trade and the Transition to Capitalism
6. Friedrich Engels/ Silvia Federici - Women’s Unpaid Labor and Primitive Accumulation
7. Robert Brenner/ Ellen Meiskins Wood - The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism
8. Antonio Gramsci/ Giovanni Arrighi - Finance and Capitalism
9. Henri Pirenne/ Oliver C. Cox - The City and the Foundations of Capitalism
10. Nikolai Kondratieff/ Ibn Khaldun - A Cyclical Theory of Empire
II. Postcolonial Theories of Capitalism 11. Barrington Moore/ Claudia Jones - Postcolonial Class Analysis
12. CLR James/ Walter Rodney - Capitalism’s Soft Imperialism and Global Racism
13. Mahatma Gandhi/ Bhagat Singh - The Role of Working Class Violence in National
Liberation
14. Vladimir Lenin/ Nestor Makhno - Workers, Peasants, Anti-colonialism
15. Albert Camus/ Mustapha Khayati - A Situationist Theory of Underdevelopment
16. Kwame Ture/ WEB Du Bois/ Amílcar Cabral - Against the Colonization of Consciousness of Political Economy
17. Mao Zedong/ Charu Mazumdar - Existential Unfolding as Revolutionary Praxis
18. Muhammad Ali/ Ulrike Meinhoff - A Critique of Western Imperialism from Within
19. Martin Luther King Jr./ Ho Chi Minh - Rethinking the World Revolution of 1968
20. Dipesh Chakrabarty/ Eric Wolf - Capitalism as seen from its Peripheries
21. Edward Said/ Frederick Jameson/ Aijaz Ahmad - Orientalism, Postmodernity and the Problem with Capitalist Culture
III. Theories of Labor and Capitalism 22. Frederick Winslow Taylor/ Harry Braverman - The Labor Process and Work Under
Capitalism
23. Edna Bonacich/ Lucia Sanchez Saornil - A Trade Unionist Theory of Patriarchy
24. Mikhail Bakunin/ Joseph Edwards - Worker Self-Management and Black Working Class Consciousness
25. Adam Smith/ Volker Froebel, Otto Kreye, and Juergen Heinrichs - Theorizing the Global Division of Labor
26. Jacques Rancière/ Mohammad Ali El Hammi - Radicalization Through Difference
27. Karl Polanyi/ Beverly Silver - Resistance Against the Market and Struggles of Newly
Emerging Working Classes
28. EP Thompson/ Rajnarayan Chandavarkar - Culture, Labor, and the Global South
IV. Capitalism’s Uncertain Future
29. Michel Foucault/ Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri - The Disciplinary Empire and the Resisting Multitude
30. CLR James/ Herbert Marcuse - Mass Media and Colonizing Violence
31. Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo/ Samir Amin - The Poverty of Development
Economics
32. Nancy Fraser/David Harvey – Neo-liberalism and the Madness of Economic Reason
33. Joseph Stiglitz/ Juergen Osterhammel - The Great Economic Divide and Globalization
34. Joseph Schumpeter/ Thomas Piketty - The Structural Failures of Capitalism
35. Henry David Thoreau/ William Nordhaus - Capitalism and the Environmental Crisis
36. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak/ Zygmunt Bauman - Wasted and Silenced Lives in the Capitalist Order
37. Slavoj Žižek/ Noam Chomsky - Left Extremes: Authoritarians v. Libertines
38. Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze/ Manuel Delanda – Assemblage Theory: The New Necessary Analytics of Global Capitalism
V. Exploitation and Exclusion: Capitalism’s Terminal Crisis
39. The Dar Es Salaam School/ Kristin Plys - Exploitative Capitalism in the Global South
40. Giorgio Agamben and Achille Mbembe /Charles Lemert - Capitalism’s Zones of Exclusion and Necropolitics
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