The chapters I've read so far include some potshots at "Postism," a tendency that Nitzan and Bichler characterize by a fundamentalist rejection of materialism, as well as CIA funding. It doesn't seem to be super relevant to the thrust of their argument. Maybe that, and the elision of Foucault, are ...

A book by Nitzan and Bichler that I'm reading in fits and starts, available here, for free, from the writers themselves.

Essentially, it argues that the value of capital comes from neither labor nor utility, but from the control it gives its owners over people's lives. Like the threat of eviction ...