Series Foreword / Henry A. Giroux -- Foreword / Peter McLaren -- Global Capital and the Human Condition: An Absurd Way to Begin a New Millennium -- Unfolding the Essence of Capitalism--From the Simple Commodity to Global Social Domination: Capitalism, Part I -- From Essence to Appearance: Capitalism, Part II -- Ya Basta [Enough]! Challenging Capitalism in the New Millennium -- Critical Education for Revolutionary Social Transformation -- Freirean Critical Education in an Unlikely Context -- Toward the Abolition of Absurdity: Saying "NO" to Capitalism.