ABSTRACT
Post-Capitalism' is effectively structured around four arguments and/or theories. First, Mason calls upon a variant of the Kondratiev theory of 'long waves' of capitalist growth (or 'K waves'). The variation he inserts is the importance of understanding this rhythmic process in terms that take seriously political (economic) contestation. Second, Mason himself presents compelling evidence that the strength of the working class in the global North at the end of the prior K wave (from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s) was at historic highs, as it unarguably was. Through the modern era, to the present day, the power regime that has grown increasingly ecologically dominant may be called 'liberalism'. Today, however, 'liberalism' is a much abused and confused term even as, amidst the crises of global capitalism and its possible refounding, it is also absolutely key, connoting the CP/KS that is in crisis.
