Zombie Capitalism by Chris Harman

Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx

The book argues that capitalism has become a chronic, self-perpetuating crisis in which profit-driven markets are kept alive by heavy state intervention, financial speculation, and imperialist measures, producing stagnation, inequality, and unstable booms and busts; it uses Marxist analysis to explain why these recurring crises are structural rather than accidental and emphasizes the limits of reforms, the corrosive role of finance and austerity, and the need for organized working-class and international struggle to achieve socialist alternatives.

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