The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles

by David Harvey

Overview

Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Harvey has been tracking the evolution of the capitalist system as well as tides of radical opposition rising against it. In The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Harvey introduces new ways of understanding the crisis of global capitalism and the struggles for a better world.

While accounting for violence and disaster, Harvey also chronicles hope and possibility. By way of conversations about neoliberalism, capitalism, globalization, the environment, technology, social movements and crises like COVID-19, he outlines, with characteristic brilliance, how socialist alternatives are being imagined under very difficult circumstances.

In understanding the economic, political and social dimensions of the crisis, Harvey’s analysis in The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles will be of strategic importance to anyone wanting to both understand and change the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745342085
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	10/20/2020
Series:	Red Letter Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

David Harvey is one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences. A leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called ‘one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century,’ he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books, including Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (Profile Books, 2017) and A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Table of Contents

Preface - Jordan T. Camp

Editors' Note - Jordan T. Camp and Chris Caruso

Author's Note - David Harvey

Acknowledgements

1. Global Unrest
2. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
3. Contradictions of Neoliberalism
4. The Financialization of Power
5. The Authoritarian Turn
6. Socialism and Freedom
7. The Significance of China in the World Economy
8. The Geopolitics of Capitalism
9. The Growth Syndrome
10. The Erosion of Consumer Choices
11. Primitive or Original Accumulation
12. Accumulation by Dispossession
13. Production and Realization
14. Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Climate Change
15. Rate versus Mass of Surplus Value
16. Alienation
17. Alienation at Work: The Politics of a Plant Closure
18. Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19
19. The Collective Response to a Collective Dilemma

Discussion Questions and Further Readings

Index