How did anti-capitalist revolution fare in the twentieth century? John Holloway says it failed. The influential theorist and author believes we need to rethink revolution; we need to break the logic of capital in a different and distinctive way. Holloway believes that capitalism can be brought down only by the proliferation of "cracks," spaces in which people move "in the opposite direction."

Over five years into one of the most serious crises of the capitalism system, how should we understand its underlying causes and contours? Radical geographer David Harvey presents a conceptual and historical framework for understanding how urbanization and cities feed into capitalism's inbuilt need to accumulate evermore -- and the role that cities play in the attempts to resolve the periodic crises of capitalism.

We are now in an era of global finance capitalism, says Richard Peet. But what does this mean? What's the relationship between finance capitalism and neoliberalism? Does finance capital exploit differently than industrial capital? And what are finance capitalism's main features and contradictions? Richard Peet explains how we got to this point; he also describes the perils of the current political-economic moment. (Encore presentation.)

In this holiday season, many of us become particularly aware of the amount of products -- whether toys or food -- bought and then ultimately discarded. Could we significantly address global warming by simply not growing the 50% of food that ends up in the trash? Does garbage have a hidden subversive potential? Award-winning writer China Miéville discusses garbage, capitalism, and art. Critic and historian Tristram Stuart talks about food waste.

What might finance capitalism have to do with poetry?  And how might resistance to the former come from the latter? Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Italian political philosopher, writer, and media theorist, discusses money, precarious labor in an age of information and heightened alienation, and why a mantra might be a powerful weapon. He also talks about the autonomist movement in Italy in the 1970s and his involvement in the iconoclastic pirate radio station based in Bologna, Radio Alice.

For people who oppose capitalism, what use are elections? Does it make sense to work to reform the capitalist system, or is more drastic action necessary? And by what mechanisms and forms of agency does capitalism perpetuate itself? In a new book Cynthia Kaufman offers a nuanced account of capitalism that, she claims, must inform efforts to challenge it.