本书着重分析了全球两极分化的前景，指出"黄金增长期"（1950-1960）的巨变引发了新形态的两极分化，塑造出了一个与过去迥然不同的世界体系，人类正处于一场危机之中。资本主义为管理这场危机作出了种种努力，其中尤以国际货币基金组织（IMF）和世界银行（WorldBank）为代表的布雷顿森林体系最为突出。除经济以外，本书同样讨论了有关无序的政治管理问题，作者认为对资本积累的经济管理空间一直与其政治和社会管理的空间是同一的，但全球化的深入发展却终结了这种空间上的同一性。随着旧的增长模式衰退，南方和东方的外围国家却都陷入了民族国家的危机之中。为此，他提出了取代那种完全依附资本逻辑的人道主义的替代性的方案。

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.