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nikhedonias's review
4.0
Rosa as a very distinctive writing style that allows us to understand quickly the concepts at hand.
Her analysis of the blind spots of Marx’s enlarged production are on point. She brings imperialism as the missing demand for the capitalist way of production. Her analysis on militarism could be better as it is an important way to overcome the expanding need for new markets to flush out production.
Her analysis of the blind spots of Marx’s enlarged production are on point. She brings imperialism as the missing demand for the capitalist way of production. Her analysis on militarism could be better as it is an important way to overcome the expanding need for new markets to flush out production.
c2pizza's review
4.0
The amount of background given to the history of thought on surplus capital was both impressive and took a star off the rating because I feel I got too much Sismondi and Baranovski and not enough Rosa. The best, most interesting parts the book are where she's giving her own opinion, and the final hundred pages were very worth the slog to get there, it really is a slog at times though.
A wonderful companion to A People's History of the United States, Open Veins of Latin America, and The Shock Doctrine, that in many ways predicts and clarifies the future events covered in all three.
A wonderful companion to A People's History of the United States, Open Veins of Latin America, and The Shock Doctrine, that in many ways predicts and clarifies the future events covered in all three.
jolles's review
4.0
My full review is contained in my AmCap paper but: I found this shockingly prescient for our current time and surprisingly compatible with/relevant to my own work in disasters and crisis capitalism. Her articulations regarding the relationship among capitalism, imperialism, and militarism and its attendant need for human liberation feels increasingly more relevant for our days. Also shockingly readable for a work in/on economics.
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