F/Ailing Capitalism and the Challenge of COVID-19

Noel Chellan is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department, School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has published articles on environmental and developmental issues and a book: Capital An Energy Perspective.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Unravelling Ideas and Ideologies Which Prop Up the Capitalist System
1 The Word Ideology in the Time of covid -19

2 Attempting to Make Sense of Ideas and Ideologies

3 Toward the Unravelling of Neoliberal and Capitalist Ideas and Ideologies


2 Communism – the End of History

3 The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End of History
1 Capitalism – the End of History

2 The New World Order under the Mighty Capitalism


4 Capitalism in Communist China – or Vice Versa
1 Colonialism and the Taking of Hong Kong

2 The Land of Confucius Looks to Karl Marx

3 Riding the Capitalist Tiger using a Marxist gps

4 Waging War on covid -19 in a Country of 1.4 Billion People

5 Western Ideologies on the Offensive in the Time of covid -19

6 Containing China


5 Socialisms and Communisms in a Capitalist World
1 Toward Deconstructing the Celebrated Ideology of Capitalism as the End of History

2  covid -19 and the Socialist or Communist Response

3 The Green Shoots of Socialism and Communism in Capitalist America?

4 Toward a Global, Mature and Sober Dialogue on Socialism and Communism


6 Capitalism Free to Choose – Even When Others Die
1 Toward an Understanding of Freedom under Capitalism

2 An Overview of Capitalist Countries’ Response to covid -19

3 An Inconvenient Truth in the Age of Comparative Statistics and Measurement


7 Workers under Capitalism Creators of Value – Even during a Pandemic
1 Health Workers: Soldiers on the Frontline in the Time of covid -19

2 Workers: The Exploited, Unsung, Expendable, Sacked and Unknown Soldiers in the Time of covid -19 in the Capitalist Era

3 Workers: Creators of Value – Even during a Pandemic


8 The Ideology of the Invisible Hand or Capitalist Market under Capitalism
1 The Invisible Hand and Capitalist Market in the Time of covid -19

2 Producing and Reproducing Lives and Livelihoods through the Capitalist Market

3 Toward Uncovering the Fake News about the Invisible Hand and Capitalist Market under Capitalism

4 The Invisible Hand and Capitalist Market: Mid-wives of Profit and Accumulation for the Rich – and Insufficiency, Insecurity and Misery for the Poor


9 The Nanny State in the Age of Capitalism
1  covid -19 and the Nanny State

2 The Nanny State and Saving Capitalism in the Time of covid -19

3 The Capitalist Market’s Covert and Overt Dependency on the Nanny State in the Age of Capitalism


10 The Life of Capitalism
1 The Grandeur of Capitalism!

2 The Breakdown of Feudalism, Colonial Conquests and the Making of Capitalism

3 The Violent-Making of Private Property: The Foundation for the Development of Capitalism

4 The Violent-Making of the Wage Labourer, the Labour Market and Capitalism

5 Failed and F/Ailing Capitalism


11 Conclusion to Volume i

Bibliography

Index