Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

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ID2244230
AuthorsJason Struna (0000-0002-2441-8298, University of Puget Sound, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-10-07
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Forces (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/sf/sow070
OpenAlexW2527797515
LanguageEN
References cited6

When I first heard in 2011 that Bill Robinson was going to be giving a talk on “Global Capitalism and Twenty-First Century Fascism” at a conference I was attending in Prague, Czech Republic, I thought he had perhaps begun to overreach the logic of the global capitalism perspective he and others (Carroll 2010; Robinson and Harris 2000; Sklair 2001) worked to establish as a viable research program. Certainly, the Great Recession had taken its toll on the world economy and popular movements from Tunisia to New York had begun to assert visible, renewed campaigns against hegemonic forces, but the threat of an equally renewed fascist reaction seemed far-fetched. However, on hearing his analysis of the current structural crisis faced by global capitalism and seeing mounting evidence for the possibility of a fascist solution to that crisis, I began to reconsider. At the time of writing this review, Donald Trump's racist and sensationally violent rhetoric has landed him the Republican presidential nomination, UKIP's anti-immigrant populism succeeded in securing a yes vote for British secession from the EU, and states from Europe to the United States have increasingly turned to mass incarceration in the handling of refugees, migrants, the poor, and other “surplus populations” displaced by the wake of political economic restructuring and organized violence dominant groups have set in motion worldwide (Robinson 2014).

Capitalism · Economic history · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Restructuring · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism

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