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Social developments constantly surprise. The latest anxieties over the economic contradictions of extreme globalization haven’t been triggered by a trade war, inter-imperial rivalry, a financial meltdown or riots in the streets. They’ve rather been sparked by an apparently non-economic and (...)
A review of “Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism,” by William I. Robinson.
Spurred on by the global justice movement of the late 1990s, and the U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, Marxists like David Harvey and Ellen Meiksins Wood have produced a flowering (...)
If one feature of any truly revolutionary moment is the complete failure of conventional categories to describe what’s happening around us, then that’s a pretty good sign we’re living in revolutionary times.
It strikes me that the profound confusion, even incredulity, displayed by the French (...)
The OECD has launched its new Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct (the Guidance). Irrespective of its limits and shortcomings, this Guidance offers a definition of ethical and responsible business behaviour which labour and civil society campaigners can use to hold companies (...)
Two decades ago, and without significant public debate, an obscure international agreement entered into force, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). It acts like the secret magical “One Ring to rule them all” from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, granting corporations enormous powers over our energy systems including the ability to sue governments, which could obstruct the transition from climate-wrecking fossil fuels towards renewable energy. And the ECT is in the process of (...)
Below is a revised version of a presentation given to a panel on “Mass Incarceration and the Global Rise of Authoritarian Capitalism” at the Los Angeles Peace Center on September 23, 2017.
In this paper, I would like to address four questions: 1. Is capitalism inherently authoritarian, and if (...)
Conservatives today have been deeply critical of what is often called postmodernism. However, these conservative criticisms distract from powerful social trends which might play a far more significant role in the “production of difference” across society. Postmodern conservatives have failed to (...)
An assessment of Marini’s work on dependency theory in light of contemporary developments in global capitalism.
Introduction
Brazilian economist and sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997) was a prime exponent of what became known as dependency theory, an attempt to explain the systemic (...)
The following interview with Alain Badiou, conducted by Darko Vujica, was originally published by prometej.ba.
Darko Vujica: You have invested a lot of energy in realizing the Idea(s) of communism. What drew you to a revolutionary engagement and why?
Alain Badiou: My father was a (...)
Patrick Bond, who held a keynote address at the BRICS counter-summit in Hong Kong says that critics consider the 9th BRICS summit in Xiamen, China, a missed opportunity to challenge corporate led globalization. SHARMINI PERIES: It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from (...)
It was the left who diagnosed the ills of globalization. So why is the right eating our lunch?
Free trade and the freedom of capital to move across borders have been the cutting edge of globalization. They’ve also led to the succession of crises that have led to the widespread questioning of (...)
Feminist philosopher, political economist, and activist Silvia Federici on the transformation reproductive labor has experienced over the last 40 years, and in particular, with the post-2009 austerity. Originally published in Italian in Francesca Coin (ed.), Salari rubati. Economia politica e (...)
An investigation into a term that seems to perfectly capture the indignities and absurdities of the modern economy.
A job advertisement celebrating sleep deprivation? That’s late capitalism . Free-wheeling Coachella outfits that somehow all look the same and cost thousands of dollars? Also (...)
Last September, a very twenty-first-century type of story appeared on the company blog of the ride-sharing app Lyft. “Long-time Lyft driver and mentor, Mary, was nine months pregnant when she picked up a passenger the night of July 21st,” the post began. “About a week away from her due date, Mary (...)
The world’s economists have been wrestling with something they have found difficult to explain. Why is it that stock market prices have continued to go up despite the fact that something called growth seems to be stagnant? In mainstream economic theory, it’s not supposed to work that way. If (...)
The ruling by EU competition commissioner Margarethe Vestager that Apple should pay the Irish government €13.2 bn, because the derisory 2% tax charged on Apple profits was ‘unfair’ to other companies, reveals just a tiny corner of the tax, labour and political practices of the world’s most (...)
David Harvey on what neoliberalism actually is — and why the concept matters.
Eleven years ago, David Harvey published A Brief History of Neoliberalism, now one of the most cited books on the subject. The years since have seen new economic and financial crises, but also of new waves of (...)
Review of Drug War Capitalism. By Dawn Paley. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2014, 279 pages, $16.95 paperback.
THE DISAPPEARANCE AND likely massacre of 43 leftist students in Mexico’s Guerrero state in September 2014 has cast a spotlight on the deep ties between high-level state personnel and violent (...)
The price for deals like TPP is paid in forced migration and the refugee crises that are rolling around the globe.
If there’s one thing more disconcerting than Republicans opposing Barack Obama at every turn, it’s the rare occasion when they actually agree with him. True, the gridlock resulting (...)
Terms such as ‘investor’ and ‘partner’ are taking on new meanings as multinationals manipulate deals to take legal action against sovereign states.
The US and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called free-trade agreements; in fact, they were (...)
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