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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Capitalism Around the World -- 1. In France and Germany, Anticapitalist Attitudes Are Widespread -- 2. Scandinavian Countries Practice a Superior Form of Capitalism -- 3. Popular Opinion in China Favors Capitalism -- 4. In Russia, So-Called Kremlin Capitalism Is Fascism, Not Capitalism -- 5. Africa Is Undergoing a Capitalist Revolution That Must Continue -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Capitalism and the Global Financial Crisis -- 1. Unbridled Capitalism Is to Blame for the Worldwide Financial Crisis -- 2. Entrepreneurial Capitalism Is Not to Blame for the Worldwide Financial Crisis -- 3. Capitalism Worldwide Is Threatened by US Government Response to the Financial Crisis -- 4. The Crisis of Capitalism Requires That the United States Move Away from Consumerism -- 5. Australia Should Respond to the Financial Crisis by Rejecting Extreme Capitalism -- 6. The Impact of the Crisis on the Developing World Shows the Failure of Global Capitalism -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Capitalism and Democracy -- 1. Capitalism Is Threatening Democracy Worldwide -- 2. In the United States and the United Kingdom, Democracy Threatens Capitalism -- 3. Capitalism Improves the Lives of Women More Than Democracy Does -- 4. In Many Countries, Capitalism Exists Without Democracy -- 5. In China, Capitalism Exists Without Political Democracy -- 6. In Latin America, Democratic Countries Are Rejecting Capitalism -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Capitalism and Social Welfare Spending -- 1. Europe Should Not Abandon Its Social Model of Capitalism -- 2. In the United States, Social Insurance Balances the Harms of Capitalism

Capitalism is first and foremost an economic system that prizes free and competitive markets, private ownership, and a comparatively small role for government intervention and regulation. Yet capitalism also has many political undertones and has become associated with notions of freedom, individualism, self-determination, and anti-unionism. As a political and economic philosophy, it was a major player in the Cold War, squaring off against communism and seemingly triumphing. The colorful history of this economic system that doubles as a political philosophy is recounted here, from Medieval-era

In the last decade significant changes in capitalism are appearing, it entered a new stage. After the political breakdown of Feudalism in World War 1 a stage of capitalism that aimed at integration of all parts of society was slowly developing. 15 years later the authoritarian regimes of national socialism, Fascism, intermitted the evolution of Integrated Capitalism. Since 1945 it flourished again, though its political governance on a global level in recent decades ran into more and more contradictions. After the deep economic crisis of 2008 a turning point towards authoritarian governance of capitalism – in particular in the USA – is evident. Since this type of new nationalist authoritarian capitalism destroys global integration it is called Disintegrating Capitalism. An immediate consequence of the global contradiction between worldwide interwoven production processes and rivalries between nationalist regimes is a rapidly rising danger of a third World War. The second, more speculative part of the paper explores possible forms, which this WW3 could take on. A conclusion provides some ideas on possibilities to react to war tensions.

In October 2011, in the Center for Comparative Socio-Economic and Socio-Political Studies of IMEMO RAN the meeting of a scientific-theoretical workshop on the subject «"Alternative capitalism" or Alternative to Capitalism?» took place. Problems of conceptual crisis in social sciences and methodology of the modern socio-political changes analysis were in the spotlight. The discussion evolved over two main problems: 1. Knowledge crisis or development crisis? On methodology of the modern socio-political changes analysis and problems of a new social sciences research paradigm development. 2. Capitalism and modernization. Main ideas of presentations by scientists from IMEMO and other scientific institutions are outlined in two issues of the journal (No. 7, 8).

Cover -- Contents -- Part I - Break -- 1. Break. We want to break. We want to create a different world. Now. Nothing more common, nothing more obvious. Nothing more simple. Nothing more difficult. -- 2. Our method is the method of the crack. -- 3. It is time to learn the new language of a new struggle. -- Part II - Cracks: The Anti-Politics of Dignity -- 4. The cracks begin with a No, from which there grows a dignity, a negation-and-creation. -- 5. A crack is the perfectly ordinary creation of a space or moment in which we assert a different type of doing. -- 6. Cracks break dimensions, break dimensionality. -- 7. Cracks are explorations in an anti-politics of dignity. -- Part III - Cracks on the Edge of Impossibility -- 8. Dignity is our weapon against a world of destruction. -- 9. Cracks clash with the social synthesis of capitalism. -- 10. Cracks exist on the edge of impossibility, but they do exist. Moving they exist: dignity is a fleet-footed dance. -- Part IV - The Dual Character of Labour -- 11. The cracks are the revolt of one form of doing against another: the revolt of doing against labour. -- 12. The abstraction of doing into labour is the weaving of capitalism. -- 13. The abstraction of doing into labour is a historical process of transformation that created the social synthesis of capitalism: primitive accumulation. -- Part V - Abstract Labour: The Great Enclosure -- 14. Abstract labour encloses both our bodies and our minds. -- 15. The abstraction of doing into labour is a process of personification, the creation of character masks, the formation of the working class. -- 16. The abstraction of doing into labour is the creation of the male labourer and the dimorphisation of sexuality. -- 17. The abstraction of doing into labour is the constitution of nature as object.