Jerry Harris
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3677551 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jerry Harris |
| PRENOMES | Jerry |
| SOBRENOME | Harris |
| ASSINATURA | HARRIS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | DeVry University, Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4658-0314 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 206 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Analyses of Western Geostrategic Projections Towards Latin America and the Caribbean
US/China Competition in a Multipolar Latin America
The United States (US) is moving to reestablish its hegemony over Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). But it must contend with two oppositional forces: China’s deepening economic ties in LAC and growing multipolarity throughout the Western Hemisphere. This article explores US policy, Chinese trade, and FDI and examines how US/Chinese competition is affecting Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru.
Marxism and Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence and Self-Determination
This article traces the historic development of socialist thought on the importance of upholding independence and self-determination for oppressed nations. The examination starts with Marx on independence for Ireland and Lenin’s political and theoretical principals on nations oppressed by the Tsarist dictatorship. It proceeds to Ho Chi Minh’s address to the Comintern, Chou En Lai at the Bandung Conference, and Mao’s writings on contradictions. Th…
Global Upheaval
Imperialism and Contemporary Global Capitalism
The nature of imperialism has changed over the past 45 years of globalization. The global capitalist system still retains important aspects of state-centric politics and the Western hierarchy but the vast integration of transnational finance and networked production has reshaped relationships and links the big bourgeoise of all countries. The contradictions between the older imperialist system of states, first articulated by Lenin and others of h…
Is China an imperialist power
Among the mainstream press, western political elites and sections of the Left, China is accused of exploiting the Global South and even being an imperialist power. China argues it is pursuing a 'win-win' policy. To explore this question, this article looks at several factors, including labour exploitation, debt, environmental damage and military activity. Imperialism today operates through a vast network of integrated transnational investments an…
Is multi-polarity the new non-alignment
As multi-polarity grows, there are some who see this as a new stage of non-alignment, and even the creation of an anti-imperialist bloc. But the economic and political elites of the Global South are too deeply tied to transnational capitalism to be truly independent. Instead, multi-polarity is a struggle within global capitalism for a larger share of markets, profits and political power. China has become the main proponent of a new world order ba…
The Dangers of Ecofascism
Neoliberalism and evangelical theocrats want to create an authoritarian capitalism that maintains a political, social, and environmental dictatorship. Green capitalism offers only limited change unable to solve the environmental crisis. Building alternative hegemony around a Green New Deal will be the best oppositional force to ecofascism
Can Global Capitalism Endure? By William I. Robinson
Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Conflict
Integrated global capitalism has emerged over the past forty years as the dominant economic system. This world system was constructed by the transnational capitalist class, which established hegemonic political and cultural power in both the Global North and South. Nevertheless, competition and contradictions characterize global capitalism, within and between classes as well as nation states
Behind the US-China Cold War
As the global pandemic accelerates economic problems, divisions over global capitalism have sharpened. This includes those who want to delink the US/China relationship, those who wish to recalibrate but maintain the transnational system, and China’s own more assertive strategy as its economic power increases. These debates affect national and world politics as antagonism grows, even as capital continues to pour into China
The conflict between national and transnational power
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a powerful assertion of geopolitical power and conflict. But Russia’s nationalist and expansionary drive takes place within the context of transnational economic ties. Such ties help define the nature of the war, and both the Russian and western response. The contradictory pressures of nationalist desires conflicting with transnational integration is an underappreciated complexity of the war that this article wi…
China’s Threat to Global Capitalism
In both Europe and the US politicians are generating fear over China’s economic success. In the US, it is common for Republicans and Democrats to compete over who takes the toughest stand against C
Global Capitalism and the Battle for Hegemony
Facing a crisis of legitimacy, the capitalist class is constructing new hegemonic projects to stabilize their global system. This article will examine competing fractions of the transnational capitalist class (TCC), how these fractions are confronting the crisis of global capitalism, and how TCC theory analyzes the current state of conflict. TCC theorists see the development of two hegemonic projects, one based on militarized accumulation and aut…
Introduction
The text is an introduction to the symposium on “Future of Globalization?” for International Critical Thought. It includes a selection of four articles developed after their presentation at the 2019 conference of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism in Beijing, written by scholars from China, Czech Republic, UK and USA, focusing on issues of transnational capital, China–US tensions, China's and world's reform, and ideology evolut…
China–US Tensions
Although the trade war between China and the US has aspects of a national rivalry, at a deeper level it is a struggle over different forms of globalisation. The Chinese and US economies are deeply integrated, but the economic crisis of 2008 caused a delegitimisation of neoliberalism. The transnational capitalist class is seeking to build new hegemonic projects to stabilise global capitalism. On one side is militarised and repressive accumulation …
Can China’s Green Socialism transform global capitalism
Over the past decade, China has made a spectacular leap to become the leading user and manufacturer of wind and solar power. However their commitment to fossil fuel still outweighs renewable energy. The article will trace the growth of clean energy and the coal and oil industry, in China’s internal market as well as their global investments. It will examine both private and state-owned enterprises, show the transnational links embedded in global …
Into the Tempest
The future of globalisation
Global capitalism is visibly showing up unacceptable inequalities and social contradictions. Three camps have emerged in the ruling class in response to over-accumulation, poverty, middle-class stagnation and environmental crisis: inclusive capitalism; militarised accumulation; the Green New Deal. All fractions adhere to neoliberal principles. Inclusive capitalism - neoliberalism with a nod to Keynesianism - means continued stagnation since it av…
China’s road from socialism to global capitalism
China’s engagement with global capitalism is driven by the emergence of a statist and private transnational capitalist class. Nevertheless, aspects of China’s foreign policy from the Maoist period still echo today. Consequently, elements of third world solidarity and opposition to Western domination continue to exist as China’s past is redefined to further its transnational strategies in Latin America and the US. The main Chinese investments in S…
Trump and American Fascism
The election of Donald Trump reflects the rise of a Right-wing nationalist movement. Central to Trump’s appeal has been his advocacy of anti-immigrant, racist, and misogynist ideas. At its core, his ruling power bloc consists of neo-liberal fundamentalists, the religious Right, and white nationalists. There are similarities between the new power bloc and fascism, and there are many who see Trump’s administration as such. Nevertheless, the new pre…
Kent State
Introduction
The text is an introduction to the journal special issue on a theme of the formation of global capitalism, edited by Jerry Harris (Chicago, USA) and Marek Hrubec (Prague, Czech Republic). Articles were writen by scholars from the United Kingdom, Greece, Australia, and the Czech Republic
Transnational capital and the technology of domination and desire
The revolution in information technologies has brought about a fundamental shift in the productive forces. It has become the organising tool of the transnational capitalist class in their drive to global financialisation and production. In important areas information technology has radically reduced the socially necessary labour time to produce great concentrations of wealth, the results of which have significant impacts on social relations. Addi…
Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity
Towards A Global Ruling Class? Globalization and the Transnational Capitalist Class
A transnational capitalist class (TCC) has emerged as that segment of the world bourgeoisie that represents transnational capital, the owners of the leading worldwide means of production as embodied in the transnational corporations and private financial institutions. The spread of TNCs, the sharp increase in foreign direct investment, the proliferation of mergers and acquisitions across national borders, the rise of a global financial system, an…
Statist Globalization in China, Russia and the Gulf States
Over the last few years a number of developing countries have emerged as global economic powers. This resulted from a rise in oil and commodity prices, foreign direct investments and a global shift in production. Much of this growth has been guided by governments and under the control of state corporations leading to the phenomenon of statist globalization. The rebalancing of power is an unpleasant surprise for many, with Western politicians rais…
Emerging Third World powers
China, India and Brazil have become world economic powers; they are attempting to harness the forces of globalisation so as to strengthen their international standing in multilateral institutions like the WTO. Theirs is not a surrender to imperialism, but an attempt to build a bulwark against it, from which they can implement their own national strategies for development - strategies that are qualitatively different from those followed by the non…
To be or not to Be
The defining dialectic in the world today is the contradiction between nation-centric forms of capitalist accumulation and the rapidly developing transnational system of production. These two forms of capitalism contain class interests connected to the benefits, oppression and institutional structures that arise out of the relations of production inherent in each model. These divisions between the descending and rising forms of accumulation lay t…
Transnational Capitalism and Class Formation
Within studies of global capitalism class formation is analyzed from two different viewpoints: network theory and political economy. The principal factor determining the emergence of a transnational capitalist class (TCC) is the relations of production. The questions of how production and labor are organized, and how and by whom value is expropriated are primary and point to a hegemonic and cohesive TCC. Network theory, while helpful in creating …
Going green to stay in the black
Sustainable energy use is rapidly developing, often accompanied by state support and patriotic political rhetoric. But the solar and wind energy industries are highly transnationalised and already inserted into global patterns of accumulation. This article argues that, while possibly resolving some of the most pressing conflicts between capitalism and environmental sustainability, green capitalism nevertheless fails to address the contradiction b…
Trump and American Fascism
The election of Donald Trump reflects the rise of a Right-wing nationalist movement. Central to Trump’s appeal has been his advocacy of anti-immigrant, racist, and misogynist ideas. At its core, his ruling power bloc consists of neo-liberal fundamentalists, the religious Right, and white nationalists. There are similarities between the new power bloc and fascism, and there are many who see Trump’s administration as such. Nevertheless, the new pre…
Global Capitalism and the Battle for Hegemony
Facing a crisis of legitimacy, the capitalist class is constructing new hegemonic projects to stabilize their global system. This article will examine competing fractions of the transnational capitalist class (TCC), how these fractions are confronting the crisis of global capitalism, and how TCC theory analyzes the current state of conflict. TCC theorists see the development of two hegemonic projects, one based on militarized accumulation and aut…
Bolivia and Venezuela
The beginning of the twenty-first century has witnessed the rise of exciting new revolutionary movements against capitalist globalisation. They are characterised, in Latin America particularly, by qualitatively different strategies from the socialist movements of the last century. Rather than vanguard parties leading a Leninist insurrection or Maoist people's war, these movements are building broad social blocs in a Gramscian war of position and …
The Conflict for Power in Transnational Class Theory
The future of globalisation
Global capitalism is visibly showing up unacceptable inequalities and social contradictions. Three camps have emerged in the ruling class in response to over-accumulation, poverty, middle-class stagnation and environmental crisis: inclusive capitalism; militarised accumulation; the Green New Deal. All fractions adhere to neoliberal principles. Inclusive capitalism - neoliberalism with a nod to Keynesianism - means continued stagnation since it av…
The US Military in the Era of Globalisation
Dans cet article, l'A se penche les effets de la mondialisation au niveau de la fonction et du role des forces armees americaines. L'A revient ici sur les implications du 11 septembre, mais aussi sur le programme et les conceptions de l'administration Bush. Il est egalement question de la place de l'industrie de l'armement au niveau national mais aussi des strategies a adopter dans le contexte international actuel ou la mondialisation economique …
Translateral Politics, Class Conflict, and the State
Transnational capitalist class (TCC) theory has established a clear set of economic practices that have laid the basis for class formation on a global scale. Less clear is the relationship of the TCC to national states, the military (particularly the US superpower), and what constitutes transnational political practices. The author argues that the emerging world system is characterized by uneven development between economic and political hegemony…
The Center Cannot Hold
A key point in the history of the Communist Party USA occurred in events surrounding the 16th National Convention, in 1957 and 1958. During this period a struggle over the political and organizational direction of the Party erupted, resulting in a reduced and weakened organization. Most historians give priority to the split between the right and left wings led by Johnny Gates and William Z. Foster, respectively. This overlooks the importance of t…
Information Technology and the Global Ruling Class
L'auteur nous fait part dans cet aricle de l'essor et de la domination des nouvelles technologies de l'information sur la planete Monde. Il distingue quatre types de technologie et les confronte avec le systeme economique ambiant. Stocks, fusions-acquisitions, finances, sont autant de combinaisons possibles de la globalisation galopante. Neanmoins, l'auteur rapelle que les richesses creees et les contre-courants engendres n'auraient pas pu se dev…
Us
Globalisation and the technological transformation of capitalism
We are faced with a similar epochal question today. Is globalization a mature capitalism that has outgrown its national adolescence into a unifying world system with universal commodification? Or have we reached a new stage of development where the technological revolution has opened the door to a qualitative leap in the expansion of capital? Does the current “globalization” expansion have fundamental differences with the international markets th…
China–US Tensions
Although the trade war between China and the US has aspects of a national rivalry, at a deeper level it is a struggle over different forms of globalisation. The Chinese and US economies are deeply integrated, but the economic crisis of 2008 caused a delegitimisation of neoliberalism. The transnational capitalist class is seeking to build new hegemonic projects to stabilise global capitalism. On one side is militarised and repressive accumulation …
Can Green Capitalism Build a Sustainable Society
Marxists and radical environmentalists have argued that the never ending drive for expanded accumulation and production is the fundamental reason that capitalism can never solve the environmental crisis, and in effect can only make the crisis more severe. Promoters of green capitalism also focus on the growth cycle of capitalism, but argue that new environmental technologies can out compete and be more profitable than the destructive means of pro…
Global monopolies and the transnational capitalist class
Globalization has led to world spanning corporations competing to become the dominant monopoly in their areas of economic interests. This competitive struggle is carried out by the transnational capitalist class rather than states backing national champions, and reflects the changing character of capitalism. The drive to create a seamless world system of finance and production is inherent to the structural needs of capitalism to seek out markets,…
Outward bound
This article explores the development of statist transnational capitalism in China by examining the economic activity of large state-owned economic units in energy, finance and manufacturing and their relationship to other transnational capitalists through links in foreign direct investment, joint ventures and stock investments. It also analyses the divisions within China between the neoliberal export sector and the neo-Keynesian transnational fr…
The World Economic Crisis and Transnational Corporations
Obama
Barack Obama's election as US president marks a historic cultural shift in US political life, and is a major victory for progressive forces. But what is the nature of the broad-based alliance that placed him in the White House, how was it forged and from what did it derive its strength? The global economic crisis has shockingly exposed the bankruptcy of hitherto dominant and unfettered neoliberalism and opened the way for setting a genuinely prog…
Transnational Competition and the End of U. S. Economic Hegemony
Dreams of Global Hegemony and the Technology of War
Predictive Validity of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts for Achievement in First Grade
The relation between performance on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (BTBC) and achievement in the first grade was examined. The BTBC was administered in September and the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) in May to 278 first-grade pupils. The correlation between BTBC and SAT total test scores was .56. The median correlation between scores on the SAT subtests and BTBC total test was .47. Despite limited variability in BTBC scores, the findings have…
First Reaction
Sivanandan and the Technological Revolution
Globalisation and the technological transformation of capitalism
We are faced with a similar epochal question today. Is globalization a mature capitalism that has outgrown its national adolescence into a unifying world system with universal commodification? Or have we reached a new stage of development where the technological revolution has opened the door to a qualitative leap in the expansion of capital? Does the current “globalization” expansion have fundamental differences with the international markets th…
Commentary
Towards A Global Ruling Class? Globalization and the Transnational Capitalist Class
A transnational capitalist class (TCC) has emerged as that segment of the world bourgeoisie that represents transnational capital, the owners of the leading worldwide means of production as embodied in the transnational corporations and private financial institutions. The spread of TNCs, the sharp increase in foreign direct investment, the proliferation of mergers and acquisitions across national borders, the rise of a global financial system, an…
Us
Information Technology and the Global Ruling Class
L'auteur nous fait part dans cet aricle de l'essor et de la domination des nouvelles technologies de l'information sur la planete Monde. Il distingue quatre types de technologie et les confronte avec le systeme economique ambiant. Stocks, fusions-acquisitions, finances, sont autant de combinaisons possibles de la globalisation galopante. Neanmoins, l'auteur rapelle que les richesses creees et les contre-courants engendres n'auraient pas pu se dev…
Notes for a New Economy
The US Military in the Era of Globalisation
Dans cet article, l'A se penche les effets de la mondialisation au niveau de la fonction et du role des forces armees americaines. L'A revient ici sur les implications du 11 septembre, mais aussi sur le programme et les conceptions de l'administration Bush. Il est egalement question de la place de l'industrie de l'armement au niveau national mais aussi des strategies a adopter dans le contexte international actuel ou la mondialisation economique …
The Future we Love to Hate
The Conflict for Power in Transnational Class Theory
Transnational Competition and the End of U. S. Economic Hegemony
Dreams of Global Hegemony and the Technology of War
To be or not to Be
The defining dialectic in the world today is the contradiction between nation-centric forms of capitalist accumulation and the rapidly developing transnational system of production. These two forms of capitalism contain class interests connected to the benefits, oppression and institutional structures that arise out of the relations of production inherent in each model. These divisions between the descending and rising forms of accumulation lay t…
Emerging Third World powers
China, India and Brazil have become world economic powers; they are attempting to harness the forces of globalisation so as to strengthen their international standing in multilateral institutions like the WTO. Theirs is not a surrender to imperialism, but an attempt to build a bulwark against it, from which they can implement their own national strategies for development - strategies that are qualitatively different from those followed by the non…
Globalisation, theocracy and the new fascism
The Christian Right is an increasingly powerful phenomenon in US politics. Extremely influential in the current administration, it has been building a mass base across the nation. This analysis of a movement that has been growing over the past four decades reveals the complex interrelationships between its different strands, their reach into the mass media, their war of attrition against socially liberal legislation and the opportunistic links wi…
Bolivia and Venezuela
The beginning of the twenty-first century has witnessed the rise of exciting new revolutionary movements against capitalist globalisation. They are characterised, in Latin America particularly, by qualitatively different strategies from the socialist movements of the last century. Rather than vanguard parties leading a Leninist insurrection or Maoist people's war, these movements are building broad social blocs in a Gramscian war of position and …
Defending workers' rights in China
China's tremendous economic growth over the last two decades has begun a historic shift away from the economic dominance of the West that is the subject of much commentary and debate. Far less known is the impact on Chinese workers themselves, who are frequently denied the rights laid down in labour laws and also lack the protection of public health services or unemployment benefits. Protests against these conditions are steadily growing. China L…
Statist Globalization in China, Russia and the Gulf States
Over the last few years a number of developing countries have emerged as global economic powers. This resulted from a rise in oil and commodity prices, foreign direct investments and a global shift in production. Much of this growth has been guided by governments and under the control of state corporations leading to the phenomenon of statist globalization. The rebalancing of power is an unpleasant surprise for many, with Western politicians rais…
US imperialism after Iraq
The failure of its occupation of Iraq has provoked deep divisions among the US ruling elite over the future of foreign policy. The unilateralism promoted by the neoconservatives has been discredited, yet it is unclear whether the post-Bush era will be dominated by the `realists' or the `globalists', each of whom advocate different pathways for US imperialism. The `realists' - long the dominant trend in US foreign policy thinking - aim to maintain…
The Nation in the Global Era
The Nation in the Global Era: Conflict and Transformation makes available a unique blend of multi-disciplinary research covering topics that present the most current thinking on key developments concerning globalization. Its main focus covers questions of transnational class and identity in relationship to the nation-state.
Obama
Barack Obama's election as US president marks a historic cultural shift in US political life, and is a major victory for progressive forces. But what is the nature of the broad-based alliance that placed him in the White House, how was it forged and from what did it derive its strength? The global economic crisis has shockingly exposed the bankruptcy of hitherto dominant and unfettered neoliberalism and opened the way for setting a genuinely prog…
Going green to stay in the black
Sustainable energy use is rapidly developing, often accompanied by state support and patriotic political rhetoric. But the solar and wind energy industries are highly transnationalised and already inserted into global patterns of accumulation. This article argues that, while possibly resolving some of the most pressing conflicts between capitalism and environmental sustainability, green capitalism nevertheless fails to address the contradiction b…
The World Economic Crisis and Transnational Corporations
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