This work advances a systematic diagnosis of contemporary global capitalism as a carcinogenic mutation of economic life. It argues that the dominant money-sequence of value — investment for private monetary multiplication without intrinsic life-function — has detached from the life-requirements of human and ecological systems. The result is a pattern of metastasis across social, political, and environmental domains: widening inequality, erosion of public goods, ecological degradation, financial instability, and the hollowing out of democratic sovereignty.
Against both orthodox and Marxian economic frameworks, the book develops a life-value onto-axiology grounded in universal life-requirements. It distinguishes life-capital — capacities that generate and sustain life — from money-capital, which may grow independently of life support. By decoding the underlying value-code of the global market system and its institutional enforcement, the study proposes a paradigm shift toward life-capital investment, civil commons institutions, and public banking as the cure to systemic disorder.
The argument integrates philosophical analysis, political economy, and empirical case studies to reframe economic rationality around life-coherent standards of value, accountability, and democratic governance.
