Includes bibliographical references.

Capitalist socialism? -- Crisis as shock therapy -- The structure of enemy propaganda -- Human, all too human-- -- The "new spirit" of capi talism -- Between the two fetishisms -- Communism, again! -- The new en closure of the commons -- Socialism or communism? -- The "public use of reason" -- --in Haiti -- The capitalist exception -- Capitalism with A sian values-- in Europe -- From profit to rent -- "We are the ones we h ave been waiting for."

"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral f ailures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a politic al doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] of cover.