Andrés Piqueras presents an in-depth analysis of the current state of capitalism, identifying the overaccumulation of capital as its chronic disease and observing its implications. The main idea revolves around how this condition has led to a multitude of social, economic, and ecological problems, culminating in military escalation and violence as a means of controlling resources.

While capitalism develops the productive forces, it increasingly uses machinery, robotization, and now artificial intelligence to replace human labor. This substitution increases the proportion of “dead labor” relative to “living labor,” causing a fundamental contradiction that provokes the current crisis of falling surplus value, for which capitalism is finding it increasingly hard to find a way out.