This book of essays, written in honour of James Petras, address some of the most critical issues of our time: those of imperialism, crisis and class struggle. These issues allow the authors to identify both the 'the enduring verities and contemporary face of capitalism' and Petras' contributions.

An examination of the domination of neoliberal capital, showing how it renders impossible the unity of human beings dispossessed from the means of production and subsistence. Left unchallenged, capital confines large masses to a life of exploitation, domination, and bare subsistence as the...

Intro -- Crisis of Capitalism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Economics between Science and 'Non-Science' in the Current Crisis of the Capitalist System -- PART ONE TOWARDS A CRITIQUE OF BASIC ECONOMIC CATEGORIES -- 1 Economic Theory from Utopian Socialism to Marx...

Within the context of the ecological crisis of the twenty-first century, the book integrates Marxism and systems theory to reveal finance capital and the 'war on terror' as complementary responses of a capitalism reduced to parasitising upon symptoms of chaos.