Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy: An American Crisis

1.  Money and the World it Creates 
  7Astounding Facts on Polarization of Wealth and Poverty  The Dominant Class                                 Economy, Society, Culture, and Polity: The Four Principal Means of Plutocratic Rule
Ch. 2.  The Political Economy of Financialization and Its Consequences                                                     Crisis                                                       Financial Instruments, not Jobs, Schools, or Clean Energy     The Norm of Economic Stagnation Income/Wealth Distribution and Stagnation
Ch. 3.  Degenerative Development and Class Transformation                                                       The Working Class Today  The Under Class of Immiserated Peoples The Formation of the Middle Class  The Intermediate Class and its Fractions
  Internationalization, Accumulation, and Class Accumulation and the State
Ch. 4.  Ideology as the Root of Plutocratic Rule
     Subverting Consciousness
   The Culture of Fear  
   Cultural Myth and Fear
   Fear and Scapegoating
   Fear. Endless Fear
   The Subtle Side of Fear
   Capitalism and Morality
   Confronting Fear
Ch. 5.  The Ruling Class Rules by Subordinating Government to the Sway of Money  
 
   Plutocracy
   The State of National Insecurity
   The Lesser Evil Limitations to the Subjugation of the State to Plutocracy

Ch. 6.  Rule by Divide and Conquer
   
   Ideology and Class Relations. Allies and Enemies of Real Change
   Plutocrats and Their Servants Get Off on Subordinating Women
   Global Women´s Strike International Demands
   Stratification of the Working Class
   Immigrant Labor and Scapegoating
   The Interconnections of Racism, Sexism, Scapegoating, and Other Evils in the Reproduction of the System

Ch. 7. The Ultimate Means of the Rule of Capital: Repression, Terror, and War 
   Imperial Ambition and War
   On the Infamous Satan Hussein
   A Super Rogue StateClear as Mud Libya, One Nationalist Down, a Nation Destroyed, ISIS Up  Death Squads  Fascism, Ameri an Style
Ch. 8.  Globalization of Capital and its Ideologically Framed Policies 
86Skimming Recent History  Neoliberalism and Globalization More on Global Reach: The U.S. Federal Reserve, Finance Capital and Global Speculation The European Union. The Modern Odyssey of Greece  The Ukrainian Travesty Free Trade Has a High Price Socialism for the 21st Century Viva Cuba! Class Relations and Globalization, Latin America  Goose-stepping Toward Hegemony Transition to Democracy of the 1990s and Breaking Out in the 2000s  Latin America, Local Oligarchs and U.S. Intervention       Challenges to Development and Achieving a Just Society                                       
Ch. 9.  A Summary of Strategic Considerations  
116Consciousness:  The Dialectic of What is and What Ought to Be Class Forces to Work Toward a Counter-Hegemony  The Working Class and Unions The Under Class and Minorities: Protest and Rebellion Ambiguous Role of the Middle Class  Division Among Capitalists Youth and Social Change

Ch. 10.  Confronting What Is to Achieve Counter-Hegemony 
131Fear, War, and Official Terrorism CIA: Central Intelligence Assassins Curbing Terror and War War Crimes, Historical Parallels Degenerative Development and the Environment Combating Racism: Criminalization of Poverty and the Reform of the Criminal Justice System Nationalization of Banks and Worker/Public Control of Bankrupt Firms  Class Organization to Extend Social Programs Universal Health care as a Central Demand Quality Education at all Levels and Free Higher Education
Ch. 11.  Some Tactical Considerations 
146Demand the Impossible Obstruction/Disruption as Tactical Advantage  Prioritizing Demands The Limits of Reform Electoral Politics Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions Campaigns