ABSTRACT
The principle of endless accumulation that defines capitalism is synonymous with exponential growth and the latter, like cancer, leads to death. Accumulation, which is synonymous with pauperization, provides the objective framework of the struggles against capitalism. Behind the financial crisis, there exists a systemic crisis of the capitalism of oligopolies. Contemporary capitalism is first and foremost a capitalism of oligopolies in the full sense of the term. The chapter describes the new globalization which is being built as "an apartheid at the global level," calling for the militarized management of the planet and in this way perpetuating in new conditions the polarization that cannot be dissociated from the expansion of actually existing capitalism. The political management of the worldwide domination by the capital of oligopolies is necessarily marked by extreme violence. Embracing the ideological alienation caused by capitalism does not only adversely affect the affluent societies of the imperialist centers.
