Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition

In only 986 pages, the author exposes a system which can only renew itself at the cost of increasing its problems and can only delay its eventually collapse, showing how philosophers from Locke to Hegel have assumed the permanence of capitalism and taking apart the arguments of capitalist apologists from Malthus to Hayek. He defines Western and Soviet-type postcapitalism as employing the same hierarchical structure, and explains the destructive consequences of global capitalism such as chronic unemployment and the necessity for armaments production. Distributed by Humanities Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.