<p><b>For years Abdullah Öcalan has unraveled the sources of hierarchical relations, power, and the formation of nation-states that has led to capitalism’s emergence and global domination.</b><em>Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings</em> is the second volume of his definitive five-volume work <em>The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization</em>. He makes the convincing argument that capitalism is not a product of the last four hundred years but a continuation of classical civilization.</p> <p>Unlike Marx, Öcalan sides with Braudel by giving less importance to the mode of production than to the accumulation of surplus value and power, thus centering his criticisms on the capitalist nation-state as the most powerful monopoly of economic, military, and ideological power. He argues that the fundamental strength of capitalist hegemony, however, is the competition in voluntary servitude that a market econo