Globalisation an Anti-Text : A Local View

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Globalisation in a different sense. 3. The international monetary fund: the harsh ethics of global capital. 4. The World Bank: the humane mask. 5. Rent appropriation and capitalist occupation. 6. The World Trade Organisation: the police of global capital. 7. The new strategy of global capital. 8. Another globalisation. 9. Tracing the roots. 10. Situating the position. References. Index.

"The focus of the book is on the international economic organisation: the World Bank, IMF and the WTO. In some sense one can also use this as common person\'s guide to the logic of international economic organisations in the age of globalisation.

The age of globalisation is examined from a critical Marxist perspective. It weaves a fascinating and novel view of our age with a serious revaluation of the theory and practice of Marxism today. In spite of the density of the ideas, prior exposure of the reader to the theoretical approaches on which these ideas are based is not necessary. Knowledge of economics which is the stuff of globalisation is also not demanded. Wherever necessary, theoretical issues and concepts have been explained with adequate illustrations.

The book builds on the critique of globalisation to argue for a particular vision of the alternative course of development: nirman aur sangharsh (construction and struggle). This position advocates that a meaningful struggle against the suffocating order of global capital can take shape only if it is supplemented with a positive programme of construction (both material and moral) through community effort. This conception of struggle is rooted in the ideas of nationalists like Tagore and Gandhi as much as it is in the ideas of the Marxist Revolutionary, Shankar Guha Neogi." (jacket)