Capitalist socialism? -- Crisis as shock therapy -- The structure of enemy propaganda -- Human, all too human -- The "new spirit" of capitalism -- Between the two fetishisms -- Communism, again! -- The new enclosure of the commons -- Socialism or communism? -- The "public use of reason" ... in Haiti -- The capitalist exception -- Capitalism with Asian values ... in Europe -- From profit to rent -- "We are the ones we have been waiting for."
Summary
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--Page 4 of cover.
Analysis of the current global crisis arguing that the financial meltdown signals the end of the idea of global capitalism.
