New Publication: Il Corso del Capitalismo Mondiale nella Esperienza Storica e nella Dottrina di Marx, 1750-1990 (The Course of World Capitalism: Historical Experience and Marx’s Teaching)

Our party is pleased to announce the publication of

IL CORSO DEL CAPITALISMO MONDIALE NELLA ESPERIENZA STORICA E NELLA DOTTRINA DI MARX, 1750-1990
(The course of world capitalism: historical experience and Marx’s teaching)

Number 8 in our Italian series of the texts of the Communist Left, this massive volume is a comprehensive study of the development of the world capitalist economy. It shows conclusively how vacuous the bourgeois economists are when they claim that capitalism has changed its spots. Here we see documented how the “man-eater” Capital has continued to hunt and feed on its human victims, through incessant cycles of crises and wars.

The statistical tables detailing Capital’s global development have been updated from the original versions published in 1957-59, to include data from the last few decades. Lest the reader fear that the book is mere “number-crunching”, we give this assurance: far from presenting a sterile image of capitalist growth, the work shows why the negation of this bourgeois economy and society must come

about; furthermore, the characteristics of the; communist society that will replace it are underlined. In short, communism is described on the materialist basis of the capitalist characteristics to be negated. A confirmation of Marx’s work, then, both in its analysis of the course of Capital’s development, and in its prevision of communism – and that’s what keeps our party going.

“Just as the revolutionary Prometheus stole the secret of fire from Zeus, so the party of the modern proletariat stole the knowledge of the characteristics of communist society; this is its first weapon, not a sterile analysis of the nature of the society dominated by Capital, and of its disgusting day-today activities”. (p.294)

Those interested in obtaining a copy of this work should write to one of the party’s addresses listed in this issue of our review.