Osborne’s book outlines the key insights of Marx in terms of our political, social, and economic situation today. His reading attempts to show that far from being an exclusively economic thinker, Marx’s work has far-reaching relevance, particularly, Osborne argues, in light of the explosion of globalization after 1989. See in particular chapter 6 Communism, chapter 7 Capitalism as Modernity, and chapter 9 So-called Original Accumulation.