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Title: Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction by Alfredo Saad-Filho ISBN: 0-7453-1893-2 Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Summary: Capitalism doesn't work!
Comment: This collection of 19 articles is divided into three parts, on Capital, exploitation and conflict, Global capitalism, and Crisis and the supercession of capitalism. The contributors, from across the world, reflect the increasingly widespread understanding that capitalism doesn't work. They analyse the exploitation intrinsic to capitalism and recognise that in countries like Britain there are just the two classes, a tiny minority of exploiters and the vast majority who depend on selling their labour power to make a living.
The struggle against capitalism is rooted in the workplace, where we must fight for democracy, as Saad-Filho says in his Introduction. We need to be in work, in our union, and fighting the employer. Adding together any number of pressure groups, even infusing those groups with anti-capitalist ideology will not do what is needed to end capitalism - transform the ideology of the working class.
Ben Fine accuses our trade unions of pursuing sectional interests both nationally and sectorally, when the problem is that our unions are hardly fighting for our industries and services at all. He also sees defence workers as depending on war, and energy and car workers as depending on pollution: so to end war and pollution, all we have to do is destroy what remains of our manufacturing industry!
Targeting the IMF or McDonald's is to attack symptoms, not the root of the problem, as Ellen Meiksins Wood shows. It is not a matter of building a bigger demo next time. It would really terrify the ruling classes of the world if all the anti-globalisation protestors turned to focus on working in their workplaces and trade unions to weaken and destroy capitalism.
We need workers' nationalism, that is, workers deciding their own future, in their own lands and for their own interests. As Marx wrote in the Manifesto, each working class must first of all settle accounts with its own bourgeoisie. We also need workers' internationalism, to save the future of the world and defeat the vested interest of the multinationals and the proponents of reaction and fundamentalism.
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Title: After the New Economy by Doug Henwood ISBN: 1565847709 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto by Alex Callinicos, Callinicos Alex ISBN: 0745629040 Publisher: Polity Pr Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Time for Revolution by Antonio Negri, Matteo Mandarini ISBN: 0826459315 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition by Joel Schalit ISBN: 1888451335 Publisher: Akashic Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Anti-Capitalism: A Field Guide to the Global Justice Movement by Rachel Neumann, Emma Bircham, Andrew Hsiao, John Charlton ISBN: 1565847598 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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