Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables viii
5. Foreword ix
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Two worlds
8. 1 Income polarisation in the neoliberal period 13
9. II Contemporary Marxist analysis 39
10. 2 Decline of Marxist analysis of imperialism 41
11. 3 Contemporary Marxist response to world polarisation 61
12. 4 The idea of China as a rising threat 75
13. Part III: Lenin’s theory of imperialism and its contemporary application
14. 5 What Lenin’s book does not say 85
15. 6 Is imperialism the ‘highest stage of capitalism’? 96
16. 7 Lenin’s monopoly capitalist competition 114
17. 8 Monopoly and Marx’s labour theory of value 136
18. Part IV: Monopoly and non-monopoly capital: the economic core of imperialism
19. 9 Neoliberal polarisation of capital 147
20. 10 Polarised specialisation of nations 159
21. 11 Non-monopoly Third World capital 166
22. 12 Neoliberal globalisation in historical context 185
23. 13 The industrialisation of everything 193
24. 14 Growing state dominance 202
25. 15 Stranglehold 208
26. Contemporary Marxist response to world polarisation
27. 16 China 219
28. 17 The new Imperialist cold war against China 235
29. 18 Trade war and China’s latest attempts at upgrading 244
30. Conclusion 258
31. Bibliography 263
32. Index 282