"Political philosophy provides the basis for political praxis; it requires a functional understanding of society in which the economy is an extraordinarily significant component. This is no less true of Marxism than it is of liberalism: it is all at once a political philosophy and an analysis of...

Introduction -- The threat of increasing supply price -- Coping with the threat -- The reserve army of labour in the periphery -- Capitalism, poverty and inequality -- Further elaborations and clarifications -- Metropolitan demand on tropical land mass: the empirical picture -- The international...