Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above premise ignores the enormous variety within capitalism itself. Second, there are enormous forces of...

Introduction : political economy and globalization -- Specifying the constant of capitalism in the theory of a bourgeois utopia -- Periodizing capitalism and the world historic transmutability of capital -- Globalization and the retreat of capital to the interstices of the world -- Barbarism or...