Capitalism is often recognised as a realisation of the bourgeois revolution war to the castles and peace to the huts. This book argues that a lack in perception of the progressive aspects of capitalism has resulted in policy measures that have frequently been defeated. It brings out the importance of capitalism as the promise of being able to attain socialism.Based on modern economics of a post-Keynesian nature, it rejects mechanistic marxism and the civilisational process of cultural turn thinking. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the origins of capitalism, its contradictions, the dynamics of non-capitalist societies and the challenges of globalisation (including theories of imperialism). Table of Contents: Introduction: Defending Capitalism Against the PrivilegedProfitable Capitalism and Rising Mass IncomesStratification Without Transition to Capitalism and the European DistinctivenessPre-capitalist Origins of Culture: The A-cultural Character of Capitalism and the Cultural TurnThe Nature of CapitalismGlobalisation and Its ContradictionsAlliances for Imposing Capitalism: The Globalisation of Profit Against the Globalisation of RentAn International Community of Rentier Governments: Noble Intentions or a Return to the PastBibliographyIndex