This book brings together Marxian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that the hegemonic form of global capital is founded on the foreclosure of class and world of the third. The authors counterpose the world of the third to the mainstream notion of the third world, seen as a lacking other in desperate need of aid and development. Thus, for them, the hegemonic form of global capital is engendered through the foregrounding of the poor, victim third world and the foreclosure of the non-capitalist world of the third. Building on what they characterize as an ab-original reading of Marxian historical materialism and the Lacanian real, the authors seek to conceptualize a counter-hegemonic revolutionary subject as a basis for postcapitalist alternatives to the hegemonic form of global capital.

Offers the notion of "world of the third" as an original way of understanding how global capitalism is secured Brings together Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist (especially post-Althusserian) theory Emphasizes the heterogeneity of class processes as a way of critiquing and reconceptualizing development

Autorentext
Anjan Chakrabarti is Professor of Economics at the University of Calcutta, India. Anup Dhar is former Professor of Philosophy at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, India.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Rethinking Marxism from the Outside.- Chapter 2: A Class-Focused Marxian Theory: Class and Need.- Chapter 3: Hegemony, Symbolic and the Foreclosed Real.- Chapter 4: Global Capitalist Hegemony and the Foreclosure of World of the Third.- Chapter 5: Economic Dualism: A Critique of Political Economy of Development.- Chapter 6: Global Capital and its Camp.- Chapter 7: Unveiling World of the Third.- Chapter 8: Hegemonic Capital and Social Needs.- Chapter 9: Engagement of Global Capital with World of the Third.- Chapter 10: Ethico-Politics of Anti-Capitalist Critique and Post-Capitalist Praxis.