The Capitalist Civil War — A Work in Progress
The Capitalist Civil War — A Work in Progress
A book written in public, one chapter at a time.
The left/right binary that dominants most political commentary is a distraction. The real conflict reshaping the world right now is happening inside the transnational capitalist class itself — between four factions with incompatible visions of how global capital and society should be governed.
This Substack (The Margins) is where I’m drafting The Capitalist Civil War, a book that names those four factions, traces how they fractured, and argues that their unresolved struggle is the defining feature of our political moment. The thesis is unfolding in real time as events happen — Davos summits, BRICS implosions, Hormuz blockade, tech-state mergers, European realignments — and posting the chapters as rough drafts lets me test the theory against current events as they unfold and refine the argument with reader feedback before final publication.
The four factions, briefly:
Davos — stakeholder capitalist globalists working through the WEF, BlackRock, and multilateral institutions
Imperial Nationalists — the Washington-Tel Aviv Consensus pursuing hard power and bilateral dealmaking
Silicon Valley — techno-sovereigns building network states and tearing down the administrative order
State Capitalists — civilizational-state projects led by China, Russia, and Iran
It’s a work in progress, organized as it will eventually appear in my upcoming book
The Capitalist Civil War. Some of the articles are commentary on current developments to test the thesis in real time.
INTRODUCTION: The Great Divide: Why We’re Fighting the Wrong War
CHAPTER 1: Morbid Symptoms: The Origins of the Capitalist Civil War
CHAPTER 2: The Four Factions of the Transnational Capitalist Class
(COMMENTARY) Davos Faction Floats the United States of Europe
CHAPTER 3: Modus Operandi: Who are the Transnational Capitalist Class?
CHAPTER 4: Globespeak: The Four Dialects of the Transnational Capitalist Class
(COMMENTARY) Carney Does Europe: A Marriage Made in Heaven
CHAPTER 5: The Chinese Capitalist Party
(COMMENTARY) Trump Hurries to Beijing for Emergency De-Risking
CHAPTER 6: Silicon Valley: Cult, Club, Cabal, or Class?
(COMMENTARY) The Quadripolar World Order at the Beijing Summit
CHAPTER 7: How Mark Carney Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Variable Geometry
(COMMENTARY) BRICS is Dead.
(COMMENTARY) Danielle Smith’s Referendum is Aimed at Carney, Not Alberta
CHAPTER 8: Awareness Creep: How the Four Factions Woke Up to the War
CHAPTER 9: The Four-Clocks Problem
CHAPTER 10: The Three Grand Chessboards
CHAPTER 11: The War Inside the Panopticon
Thank You, Richard. I have included a couple of your posts in my blog recently as excerpts and links. You are doing good work.