The greatest predator of democracy is the insatiable capitalist system. Breaking the pace of history, ever-hungry capitalism empties the capacity for agency for emancipation, saturating us with devices that creatively destroy social space to enable the global mobilization of power and money. Today it is inconceivable that history is made by people: our time derives from the circulation of goods and capital. How to confront the capitalist system if there is no place for politics? How to face the crisis of democracy if there is no right to the city or space for the people?

This book highlights the political dimension of capitalism as an authentic government of shock, a practice of disaster that annihilates social space, and stimulates the survival and sovereignty of the fittest. In response, he glimpses a horizon from which to build new urban and virtual spaces in which to establish new dynamics to confront the crisis of democracy. This conflict is the axis with which Álvaro Moral García builds a historical geography of the modern world system from the Middle Ages to the present, placing cities as the fundamental battlefield between the runaway time of capital and the genuine spaces of democracy.