English Summary/英文概要： The business of imperial conflict: Why capitalism needs war.

Maurizio Lazzarato’s War and Money explores the connections between capitalist expansion, international economic conflict, and war, via an analysis of the imperialism of the American dollar. He examines why contemporary left-wing theorists such as Michel Foucault and Antonio Negri have failed to recognize war as a fundamental aspect of capitalism. Renewed readings of Marx, Lenin, and Rosa Luxemburg argue for class struggle against capitalist war as a fundamental aspect of leftist theory.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 帝国冲突的事物:资本主义为何需要战争

莫里齐奥·拉扎拉托在《战争与货币》中，通过剖析美元帝国主义，揭示了资本主义扩张、国际经济冲突与战争之间的深层关联。他指出，米歇尔·福柯、安东尼奥·内格里等当代左翼理论家未能将战争视为资本主义的核心要素。通过对马克思、列宁和罗莎·卢森堡思想的重新解读，作者强调阶级斗争对抗资本主义战争是左翼理论的根本立场。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况： "Lazzarato’s book is brimming with bold and far-reaching arguments that challenge our understandings of the dominant order and the paths toward revolution."
—Michael Hardt, author of The Subversive Seventies

MAURIZIO LAZZARATO is an Italian sociologist and philosopher residing in Paris. In the 1970s, he was active in the workers’ movement Autonomia Operaia. Lazzarato is a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Multitudes, a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and a member of the International College of Philosophy in Paris. He is the author of War and Violence and The Intolerable Present, the Urgency of Revolution, among others.