Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II) by Öcalan, Abdullah

Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II)

For years Abdullah Öcalan has unraveled the sources of hierarchical relations, power, and the formation of nation-states...
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Author: Abdullah Öcalan
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Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II) by Öcalan, Abdullah

Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II)

$125.32

Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II)

$125.32
Author: Abdullah Öcalan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

For years Abdullah Öcalan has unraveled the sources of hierarchical relations, power, and the formation of nation-states that has led to capitalism's emergence and global domination. Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings is the second volume of his definitive five-volume work The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization. He makes the convincing argument that capitalism is not a product of the last four hundred years but a continuation of classical civilization.

Unlike Marx, Öcalan sides with Braudel by giving less importance to the mode of production than to the accumulation of surplus value and power, thus centering his criticisms on the capitalist nation-state as the most powerful monopoly of economic, military, and ideological power. He argues that the fundamental strength of capitalist hegemony, however, is the competition in voluntary servitude that a market economy has given rise to--not a single worker would reject higher wages--resulting in an unprecedented ability to convince people to surrender their individual power and autonomy. Öcalan further contends that the capitalist phase of city-class-state-based civilization is not the last phase of human intelligence; rather, the traditional morals upon which it is based are being exhausted and the intelligence of freedom is rising in all its richness. That is why he prefers to interpret capitalist modernity as the era of hope--but only insofar as we are able to develop a sustainable defense against it.



Author: Abdullah Öcalan
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781629636528

About the Author
Abdullah Öcalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on February 15, 1999. Havin Guneser is an engineer, journalist, and women's rights activist who writes and speaks extensively on the topic of revolution in Rojava. Radha D'Souza is a reader in law specializing in international law and development, law in third-world societies, and resource conflicts in the third world.

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