Catastrophic heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and massive flooding; a global pandemic and a war in Ukraine that threatens famine and potential nuclear conflict.
Humanity appears to be rushing headlong, lemming-like, to its own destruction. And yet the global economy continues to grow, with financial crashes and pandemics as only occasional blips.
Basing themselves unashamedly on the materialist conception of history first developed by Marx, the authors set out to understand the world we are living in.
Capitalism has unified human society across the planet, and put into humanity's hands tools of enormous, almost godlike power. Yet it remains blind, driven by an inhuman dynamic: production for production's sake; unlimited expansion in a world which, being round, is by definition finite.
The 21st century is capitalism’s endgame. But, for all its danger and destructiveness, the situation today contains the premises for a very different, more optimistic future – a future we must imagine today if we are to realise it.
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