The Accumulation of Waste

Ali Kadri teaches at Sun Yatsen university. His recent books include The Cordon Sanitaire: A Single Law Governing Development in East Asia and the Arab World, Imperialism with Reference to Syria, and The Unmaking of Arab Socialism.

1 The Accumulation of Waste

 1 Introduction

 2 Situating Waste in Imperialism

 3 De-reproduction as Accumulation

 4 The Bomb as Pure Waste

 5 Absurd and Sane Alternatives

 6 Apportioning Waste

 7 Whither Subject

 8 Issues of Waste Measurement

 9 Class-Unmeasured

 10 Eurocentrism

 11 Conclusion



2 Imperialism and Waste

 1 Imperialism with Reference the Arab Region

 2 History Omitted

 3 War and Historical Surplus Value

 4 Brinksmanship without Organised Labour

 5 Militarism versus Military Spending

 6 The War Event

 7 On Imperialism and Essence

 8 Money or the Veneer of Value

 9 The Military Landscape and China

 10 Actual and Potential War

 11 The Western Marxist Position on War

 12 Closing Comment



3 Against Empiricism

 1 The Empiricism of Harvey

 2 Diluted Imperialism

 3 Concretising Some Forms of Capital

 4 Excessive Entropy

 5 A Periodised Imperialism

 6 The Persistence of Waste

 7 Lenin’s Imperialism

 8 Misinterpreted Imperialism

 9 Imperialism and Nature

 10 Imperialism and Dead Labour

 11 Waste and Living Labour

 12 Waste in Social Time

 13 Waste and Technology



4 Value and Space

 1 Forms of Exploitation

 2 Substance and Value

 3 The Terms of Trade and Value

 4 From Value to Waste

 5 Imperialism Thingified and Actuated by Price Signals

 6 The Physical Limits of Value

 7 War as Social Production

 8 Waste and the Global Division of Labour

 9 Excess Population and Carrying Capacity

 10 The Not So Innocent Omissions

 11 The Negativity of Capital

 12 Revisiting the Elusive Measures of Value

 13 Class and Space

 14 Overproduction and Space

 15 A Portrait of Control



5 US-led Capital is the Only Imperialism

 1 Re-Theorising Imperialism

 2 Value Reconsidered

 3 Philosophy contra Value

 4 The Time in Value

 5 The Struggle for Time

 6 Abstract Time Mis-Defined

 7 Productivity and Productive Labour

 8 The Positivist/Pragmatic Method as Rationale for Imperialism

 9 Value and the National Boundary

 10 Class Institutions and Waste

 11 Dollar Hegemony and War

 12 The War Terrain

 13 China Is Not Imperialist

 14 Reproduction by Waste



6 Waste is at the Origin of Capital

 1 Development Redefined

 2 The Origins of Equity in Development

 3 Equality and Development in Islam

 4 Expansion by Economic as Opposed to Religious Zeal

 5 The East in the Economic Backwater

 6 The Consumption of Commodities by Commodities

 7 Involution and the AMP

 8 England Piloting Capitalism

 9 Production Relations Define Exchange

 10 A Restless Islamic World

 11 The Infanticide of Early Eastern/Islamic Development

 12 Thingified Institutions

 13 Islamic Wealth and the Transition

 14 Moneyed Capitalism contra Feudalism

 15 Islam’s Cosy Relationship with Materialist Philosophy and Commerce

 16 Closing Comment



7 The Absurd is Real

 1 The Negative Dialectic

 2 Waste as Entropy

 3 Waste in Social Reproduction

 4 Self-Reinforcing Waste

 5 Waste as Essence-Appearance

 6 False Value

 7 Class Cannibalism

 8 The Analytics of Resistance

 9 Back to Basics

 10 Resist to Exist



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