This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global political economy from the perspective of historical materialism. Based on the philosophy of internal relations, the character of capital is understood in such a way that the ties between the relations of production, state-civil society, and conditions of class struggle can be realised. By conceiving the internal relationship of global capitalism, global war, global crisis as a struggle-driven process, the book provides a novel intervention on debates within theories of 'the international'. Through a set of conceptual reflections, on agency, structure and the role of discourses embedded in the economy, class struggle is established as our point of departure. This involves analysing historical and contemporary themes on the expansion of capitalism through uneven and combined development, the role of the state and geopolitics, and conditions of exploitation and resistance. These conceptual reflections and thematic considerations are then extended in a series of empirical interventions, including a focus on the 'rising powers' of the BRICS, conditions of the 'new imperialism', and the ongoing financial crisis. The book delivers a radically open-ended dialectical consideration of ruptures of resistance within the global political economy.

本书从历史唯物主义的角度评估了塑造全球政治经济的过去和现在的社会斗争力量。基于内部关系的哲学，资本的特性被理解为生产关系、国家-公民社会和阶级斗争条件之间的联系可以被实现。通过将全球资本主义、全球战争、全球危机的内部关系设想为一个斗争驱动的过程，本书对 "国际 "理论中的辩论提供了一个新的干预。通过对机构、结构和嵌入经济中的话语的作用的一系列概念性思考，阶级斗争被确立为我们的出发点。这涉及到分析关于资本主义通过不平衡和联合发展而扩张的历史和当代主题，国家和地缘政治的作用，以及剥削和抵抗的条件。这些概念性的思考和主题性的考虑随后在一系列经验性的干预中得到了扩展，包括对金砖国家的 "崛起大国"、"新帝国主义 "的条件和正在发生的金融危机的关注。本书对全球政治经济中的抵抗破裂进行了根本性的开放式辩证思考。