One of the defining features of the global economy is the rise of the BRICS - a bloc of emerging economies, comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. These nations seem to be growing at a much faster rate than the developed nations of the Eurozone and North America. Will the BRICS help drag the developed world out of the economic mire? Will they force social change and innovation into the tired 'old world order'? And politically, do they herald a new dawn for democracy or do they represent a continued political repression? BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique is an edited collection which aims to answer these questions by offering critical analysis of the rise of the BRICS economies within the framework of a predatory, exclusionary and unequal global capitalism. A range of approaches to the emergence of new economies of the global South are included, which are variously co-operative and antagonistic to the traditional powers. Bringing to light a new perspective on these nations, this is an invaluable book for those who want to understand the current geopolitical and economic landscape from an anti-capitalist viewpoint.
Introduction: Ana Garcia and Patrick Bond Part 1: Sub-imperial, inter-imperial or capitalist-imperial? * Patrick Bond: BRICS and the sub-imperial location * Mathias Luce: Sub-imperialism, the highest stage of dependent capitalism * Virginia Fontes: BRICS and capitalist-imperialism * Leo Panitch: BRICS, the G20 and American Empire * Claudio Katz: Mutations of upstream, intermediate and peripheral capitalism in the neoliberal era Part 2: BRICS 'develop' Africa and Latin America * Baruti Amisi, Patrick Bond, Richard Kamidza, Farai Maguwu and Bobby Peek: BRICS corporate snapshots during African extractivism * Ana Garcia and Karina Kato: The story of the hunter or the hunted? Brazil's role in Angola and Mozambique * Omar Bonilla: Chinese oil geopolitics in the Andean region * Pedro Henrique Campos: The transnationalisation of Brazilian construction companies * Judith Marshall: Behind the image of South-South solidarity at Brazil's Vale * Einar Braathen, Celina Sorboe and Gilmar Mascarenhas: Rio's ruinous mega-events Part 3: BRICS within global capitalism * William Robinson: BRICS within transnational capitalism * Anna Ochkina: BRICS as a spectre of alliance * Elmar Altvater: BRICS within fossil capitalism * Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros: Scramble, resistance and a new non-alignment strategy * Susanne Soederberg: The BRICS' dangerous endorsement of 'financial inclusion' * Boris Kagarlitsky: The view from Russia * Au Loong Yu: The view from China * Achin Vanaik: Future trajectories for BRICS? * Immanuel Wallerstein: Whose interests are served by the BRICS? * Patrick Bond: BRICS from above, from the middle and from below * Ana Garcia: Building BRICS from below?
