The Uncontrollability of Globalizing Capital—Intro to <em>Beyond Capital</em>

Abstract

The Iranian diaspora is an extraordinary community, but one not often noted in the Western press. This community can be compared to the Russian diaspora of the 1890s, or the German of the 1930s. That is to say, an exiled community of an often revolutionary intelligentsia with a potential for affecting the world far beyond the borders of the land they left. A sign of this vigor is the forthcoming in Farsi of István Mészáros' important book Beyond Capital (published by Monthly Review Press, 1996) translated by the close friend of Monthly Review Dr. Morteza Mohit. For this edition István Mészáros wrote a special introduction. —The Editors

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