The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

The book “[The Cyclonic Development of Capitalism... sheds light on the modern era in the jaws of... Two comprehensives](https://aawsat.com/%D8%AB%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%81%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86/%D9%83%D8%AA%D8 %A8/5265421-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B9%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D9%84%D9 %84%D8%B1%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AF » Shedding light on the complex nature of the global capitalist system, tracing its structural contradictions and operating mechanisms that go beyond economics to politics and ideology, in an attempt to understand more deeply the path of global hegemony and its contemporary formations. Author Nabil Khader Melhem, in his book recently published by “Mosaic House for Studies and Publishing” in Turkey, starts from the central idea that the global capitalist system launched two contradictory processes at the same time. The first is the integration of the world’s economies into one interconnected system, while the second is based on fragmenting political structures into multiple entities, allowing the dominant power to tighten control over the joints of economics and politics. The author points out that this apparent contradiction is not a defect in the system, but rather one of the conditions for its continuation. It allows, on the one hand, to expand the scope of the global market, and on the other hand, it weakens political entities. Which makes it easier to subject it to the logic of domination. Melhem stops at the differences between the “centrality of cultural superiority” that prevailed among some thinkers of the “Age of Enlightenment,” and the “centrality of historical development” associated with Marxist thought, explaining that the difference between them lies in explaining the reasons for the disparity between peoples, between what is attributed to cultural and racial factors, and what is explained by historical economic factors. The book also rereads the ideas of the philosopher Karl Marx, pointing out what he considers “delusions” that accompanied his perceptions regarding the expansion of the capitalist system, especially the belief that it would lead to the reshaping of the world in a homogeneous manner. He believes that real developments showed a more complex path, represented by the emergence of deep structural distortions within the societies of the peripheries, instead of achieving the homogeneity assumed by those theoretical visions. The book presents a vision of capitalism as a force that transcends its economic dimension, becoming a comprehensive, transcontinental system that operates through multiple tools that include economics, politics, and ideology. With the aim of monopolizing vital areas within societies.