Confronting Capitalism in the 21st Century

Marc Silver is Professor of Sociology at Hofstra University, USA

• 1. Introduction - Confronting Capitalism: Lessons from Marx’s Capital.- 2. Marx’s ‘Ultimate Aim’ in Capital Was….- 3. Marx and Commodity Fetishism – Some Remarks on Method.- 4. Late Marx and the Conception of ‘Accumulation of Capital’.- 5. Form Analysis, Space and Spatial Struggle.- 6. The Transformation Problem and Value Form: Methodological Comments.-7. Value Forms and the Structure of the Capitalist System.- 8. Marx’s Musings on Financial Crises: Credit and Crises in the Mid-19th Century Gold Standard.- 9. Marx on Financial Intermediation:  Lessons from the French Crédit Mobilier.- 10. The Ambiguous Role of China’s Collective Land Ownership Under Global Capitalism.- 11. Beyond the ‘Pink Tide’: Dependent Capitalism in Crisis in Argentina and Lessons to be Learned for Radical Social Change.- 12. The Final Fiction: Madoff Clawback Suits and Their Implications for Capitalism in the 21st Century.- 13. Navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of Precarious Work: Through the Storm of Contingency.-  14. What if Our Schools Are Working?  Base, Superstructure, and Hegemony in Education.- 15. Demographic Changes, Pension Reforms, and Absolute Surplus Value: Intertemporal Exploitation in Contemporary Capitalism.- 16. Readings of Capital: A Starting Point for Reinventing A Socialist Politics.