{"product_id":"nations-and-capital","title":"Nations and Capital","description":"\u003cp\u003eCapitalism survives by adapting. Marx exposed its reliance on exploiting labour to generate profit. Polanyi warned that its hunger to commodify \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c\/i\u003e—nature, work, and even human bonds—destroys societies, sparking chaos. Yet capitalism endures, mutating through crises. Why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNations and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the missing mechanism: nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Marx saw revolution, and Polanyi foresaw self-destruction as capitalism’s endgames, this book uncovers nationalism as the system’s ultimate safeguard. When markets erode trust or class conflict threatens profits, nationalism steps in—manufacturing loyalty, dividing the oppressed, and recasting exploitation as collective destiny. Capitalism doesn’t merely \u003ci\u003euse\u003c\/i\u003e nationalism; it \u003ci\u003edepends\u003c\/i\u003e on it to fragment resistance, privatize solidarity, and keep us fighting each other instead of the system devouring us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen neoliberalism irreversibly ripped society’s fabric, capitalism didn’t abandon nationalism: hyper-capitalism, today’s system of limitless extraction, abandons democracy instead and turns to authoritarian nationalism. This shift isn’t a rupture but a revelation: nationalism was never a phase; it is capitalism’s life support, mutating to sustain accumulation, from colonial empires to digital oligopolies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does this matter? Because tomorrow’s crises—global economic collapse, the breakup of international order, pandemics—will be met with nationalism’s toxic embrace unless we confront its role as capitalism’s oxygen. Written from Bosnia and Herzegovina—a periphery where global capital and nationalist oligarchies joined forces to entrench ethnic partition—this theory of nationalism sees what thinkers in capitalism’s core could not: nationalism is not a byproduct of industrial capitalism's need for labour’s cultural homogeneity (Gellner) or print capitalism's construction of “imagined communities” (Anderson). It is the lifeblood of a system that cannot survive without converting solidarity into division, belonging into exclusion, and hope into fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarx and Polanyi gave us the diagnosis. \u003ci\u003eNations and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e completes it: understanding capitalism’s survival requires understanding nationalism as the other side of capitalism’s coin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238749950296,"sku":"9781032159706","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032159706_b092cb29-1e98-4cad-b20a-a999c80c9977.jpg?v=1768565711","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/nations-and-capital","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}