Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present

A comprehensive survey of capitalism's colonialist roots and uncertain future

Those who control the world’s commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking book—winner of the Paul A. Baran-Paul M.
Sweezy Memorial Award—radical political economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik argue that the accumulation of capital has always...