Confronting capitalism in the 21st century : lessons from Marx's capital

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