Capitalists and Conquerors is a series of path-breaking essays in the political sociology of education on topics hotly debated within the educational community. In this volume Peter McLaren addresses some of the most daunting political challenges of the current times, including the globalization of capitalism, the United States' drive towards world domination, strategies, tactics and models of resistance to neoliberalism and the ravages of empire-building, the role of the educator as a social agent and public citizen, the purposes and possibilities of public schooling, and the struggle for socialism. As a Marxist-humanist philosopher and social theorist, McLaren is able to offer new philosophical premises and socialist principles for building an alternative to capitalism. The passion, poetry and fierce political conviction for which McLaren is known is very much present in this volume.

"Most relevant for adult educators .... are McLaren's contributions to the development of a revolutionary critical pedagogy centering on Marx's Labor Theory of Value; the implications of this for educational practice; and the use of Marxism to make new inroads in our understanding of the relationship between race, class, and gender. McLaren's perspective and its application... provide both an innovative and necessary framework." - Adult Education Quarterly