TY - BOOK AU - Prashad, Vijay AU - Tonak, E. Ahmet AU - Pires, OlÍvia Carolino AU - Caruso, Chris AU - López, Emiliano TI - Reading capital to smash capitalism SN - 9789392018619 PY - 2024/// CY - Brazil PB - Left Word N2 - In Capital, Marx provides a theory of the enduring contradictions of capitalism. Marx’s identification of the structure of capitalism, and the method by which he uncovered that structure, provide us with a guide to seek our own precise assessment of the structures of exploitation and oppression in our own time. A scientific attitude must govern our exploration of why social inequality is reproduced routinely in our world. It is clear that the capitalist system lurches from one crisis to another. The bourgeois order is more concerned to save the capitalist system than to save humanity. Marxists need to understand precisely the nature of the crisis and see within the world as it is what elements there are to carry us forward into the world that is to be built ER -