Let Them Eat Junk

Robert Albritton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published seven books on Marxist theory, including Let Them Eat Junk (Pluto, 2009) and Economics Transformed (Pluto, 2009).

• PrefacePart I Introduction1. IntroductionPart II Understanding Capitalism2. The Management of Agriculture and Food by Capital’sDeep Structures3. The Phase of Consumerism and the US Roots of theCurrent Agriculture and Food RegimesPart III The Historical Analysis of the US-CentredGlobal Food Regime4. The Food Regime and Consumers’ Health5. The Health of Agriculture and Food Workers6. Agriculture, Food Provisioning and the Environment7. Food, Marketing and Choice in the United States8. Corporate Power, Food and Liberal DemocracyPart IV Conclusions9. Agriculture, Food and the Fight for Democracy,Social Justice, Health and SustainabilityNotesBibliographyIndex

'Albritton speaks a language that has gone unheard for too long. Karl Marx felt that capitalism's focus on short-term profit was a recipe for disaster when it came to agriculture. Now Albritton shows that, in many ways, the old man was right'