Specters of Capitalism

A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions

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by Samir Amin

Monthly Review Press

Due/Published May 1998, 160 pages, paper

ISBN 0853459339

In this succinct theoretical text, Amin examines the changing notion of crisis in capitalism; misconceptions of the free market model; the various distortions of Marx's method; the role of culture in revolutions; the decline of the "law of value" in economics; the philosophical roots of postmodernism; how telecommunications affect ideology; and the myth of "pure economics.".