The Structural Crisis of Capital.

Cover -- The Structural Crisis of Capital -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION: The Substance of the Crisis -- 1. THE UNFOLDING CRISIS AND THE RELEVANCE OF MARX -- 1. "Confidence" and its Disappearance -- 2. A Pseudo-Hegelian Triad -- 3. The Nationalization of Capitalist Bankruptcy -- 4. U.S. Default is by No Means "Unthinkable" -- 2. THE PRESENT CRISIS -- 1. Surprising Admissions -- 2. The Assertion of U.S. Hegemony -- 2.1 "Extra-Territoriality" -- 2.2 Industrial Advantage from Military Secrecy -- 2.3 Direct Trade Pressures Applied by the U.S. Legislative and Executive -- 2.4 The Real Debt Problem -- 2.5 Political Antagonism Arising from U.S. Economic Penetration -- 3. Wishful Thinking about the "Decline of the U.S. as a Hegemonic Power" -- 4. The Official View of "Healthy Expansion" -- 5. POSTSCRIPT 1995: The Meaning of "Black Mondays" (and Wednesdays) -- 3. THE NECESSITY OF SOCIAL CONTROL -- 1. The Counterfactual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology -- 2. Capitalism and Ecological Destruction -- 3. The Crisis of Domination -- 4. From "Repressive Tolerance" to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression -- 5. "War if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail" -- 6. The Emergence of Chronic Unemployment -- 7. The Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation -- 8. Capital's "Correctives" and Socialist Control -- 4. RADICAL POLITICS AND TRANSITION TO SOCIALISM: REFLECTIONS ON MARX'S CENTENARY -- 1. The Meaning of Beyond Capital -- 2. Historical Conditions of the Socialist Offensive -- 3. The Need for a Theory of Transition -- 4. "Restructuring the Economy" and its Political Preconditions -- 4.1 The Dynamics of Postwar Developments -- 4.2 Alternatives to the Dominant "Economic Imperatives" -- 4.3 The Historical Moment of Radical Politics -- 5. BOLÍVAR AND CHÁVEZ: THE SPIRIT OF RADICAL DETERMINATION -- 1. "Feathers Carried by the Tempest".

2. Chávez's Radical Critique of Politics in 1993 -- 3. Prospects for Development -- 6. THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANNING AND SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY -- 1. The "Invisible Hand" and the "Cunning of Reason" -- 2. The Long Historical Gestation of the Categories of Socialist Theory -- 3. The Key Role of Substantive Equality -- 7. A STRUCTURAL CRISIS OF THE SYSTEM: JANUARY 2009 INTERVIEW IN SOCIALIST REVIEW -- 8. THE TASKS AHEAD: MARCH 2009 INTERVIEW IN DEBATE SOCIALISTA -- 1. The Global Explosion of Capital's Structural Crisis -- 2. In Place of Neo-Keynesian Illusions: The Strategic Offensive of Anti-Systemic Forces -- 3. Monopolistic Economy and Credit Card Imperialism -- 4. The Irrationality of Capitalist "Down-Sizing" in the Age of "Monopoly-Finance Capital" -- 5. Deep-Seated Systemic Problems Call for Structural Remedies -- 6. Sectorial Interests and Class Solidarity -- 7. Labor's Historical Alternative to Capital's Social Order -- 8. A Radical Political Movement is Unthinkable Without the Creative Self-Education of its Members -- ENDNOTES -- INDEX.

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