Capitalism is in crisis—but not in retreat. It has proved remarkably adept at reinventing itself, moving seamlessly between the language of liberal inclusion and the machinery of authoritarian rule. Whether draped in the rhetoric of markets, meritocracy, and reform, or in the politics of nationalism, surveillance, and repression, its underlying logic remains unchanged: the concentration of wealth, the consolidation of power, and the exploitation of labour. Capitalism ruthlessly creates marginalisation. Questions of identity, values, moral, ethics are not beyond the system that we inhabit. All of them need to be read as located within the system and produced by it.

Equality and justice as possibilities within capitalism appear as oxymoron. There is widening inequality, deepening precarity, and the relentless expansion of capitalism into every sphere of social life. Rule of capital demonstrates its “human face” through analysis of these tendencies as mere anomalies that can be corrected within its fold. It generates theoretical tendencies to veil its actual nature. A delusional framework  that promises a better capitalist society; a well-thought programme to instil historical amnesia that scratches the superficiality of developments. The need to go to the essence, a critical reflection of the ‘critical’ itself becomes more necessary than ever.