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Spectres of Capitalism

A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions
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This economic study seeks to cut through the intellectual fashions that assume a global capitalist triumph, taking the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Marx and Engels' tract, "The Communist Manifesto" to focus upon the aspirations of the destitute millions of the post-Cold War era. Samir Amin examines the changing notions of crisis in capitalism; misconceptions of the free market model; the various distortions of Marx's method; the role of culture in revolutions; the decline of the "law of value" in economics; the philosophical roots of postmodernism; how telecommunications affect ideology; and the myth of "pure economics".
Samir Amin was one of Africa's leading Marxists and world-systems analysts. He is well known for his work on non-Eurocentric Marxism, imperial rent, the global monopoly phase of capitalism, delinking; his call for a Fifth International of workers and peoples and his anti-imperialism.
Capitalist crisis and the crisis of capitalism; unity and changes in the ideology of political economy; is social history marked by overdetermination or underdetermination?; social revolution and cultural revolution; from the dominance of economics to that of culture - the withering away of the law of value and problems of the transition to communism; postmodernism - a neoliberal utopia in disguise?; communication as ideology; pure economics, or the contemporary world's witchcraft.
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