Capital and Ideology

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Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Inequality Regimes in History 1. Ternary Societies: Trifunctional Inequality 2. European Societies of Orders: Power and Property 3. The Invention of Ownership Societies 4. Ownership Societies: The Case of France 5. Ownership Societies: European Trajectories Part Two. Slave and Colonial Societies 6. Slave Societies: Extreme Inequality 7. Colonial Societies: Diversity and Domination 8. Ternary Societies and Colonialism: The Case of India 9. Ternary Societies and Colonialism: Eurasian Trajectories Part Three. The Great Transformation of the Twentieth Century 10. The Crisis of Ownership Societies 11. Social-Democratic Societies: Incomplete Equality 12. Communist and Postcommunist Societies 13. Hypercapitalism: Between Modernity and Archaism Part Four. Rethinking the Dimensions of Political Conflict 14. Borders and Property: The Construction of Equality 15. Brahmin Left: New Euro-American Cleavages 16. Social Nativism: The Postcolonial Identitarian Trap 17. Elements for a Participatory Socialism for the Twenty-First Century Conclusion Glossary Contents in Detail List of Tables and Illustrations Index