global capitalism

The wanted to make global capitalism work for the poor – better markets and voluntary codes of conduct to encourage the private sector to “do the right thing”. It wasn't without its achievements, coming as it did after an era in which the poor were regarded as responsible for their own poverty. But it continued ...

In this future, America's turn towards corporate libertarian (racist, sexist) hellscape – and military enforcer for the titans of global capitalism – has continued to the point where the USA, after wars in Canada and Mexico, is now at war in Sweden. This is a future where the sons and daughters of the corporate ...

The lament over a perceived lack of conservative viewpoints and representation within American higher education is nothing new. William F. Buckley bemoaned the left's ideological dominance in academia in his 1951 book, God and Man at Yale. Despite the fall of the Soviet Union, the de-legitimization of ...

Pheko placed and tracked the manipulation of memory and history at the centre of what she calls “the sell-out phenomenon”, conducted and performed by the Mandela government and the ANC, in cahoots with imperial and colonial powers as well as global capitalism. Insisting that Mandela's legacy is so ...

In this future, America's turn towards corporate libertarian (racist, sexist) hellscape – and military enforcer for the titans of global capitalism – has continued to the point where the USA, after wars in Canada and Mexico, is now at war in Sweden. This is a future where the sons and daughters of the corporate ...

The term “left” now seems to imply support for the ideology of green, liberal, global capitalism. The term “right” now denotes nationalistic capitalism, with resistance to the global capitalist plans for free movement of commodities and labour. The qualifications “green” and “liberal” before the term “global ...

Data has become 'the new oil' of global economy, a new commodity to be bought and sold at a massive scale, and with this development, as a former Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff has argued, global capitalism has become 'surveillance capitalism'. What this means is that platform ...

Even after national liberation, liberalism's tight connection with capitalism blinds it to the polarisation of global capitalism, which breeds inequality and poverty for the majority of humanity that is located in the Global South. Liberation movements in Africa failed to effect meaningful social transformation that ...

He is the author of many books, the most recent of which include UK Deutscher Memorial Prize winner The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire, In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives, , Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy and ...

Corbyn's run for Labour leadership brought tens of thousands of people–many of them young and anxious about the direction of global capitalism–into the party's fold, excited to not just vote for but actively campaign in support of a man who's called Karl Marx a “great economist”. In a snap general election ...

Indeed, throughout the past five years, Francis has made a point of critiquing income inequality, global capitalism, and its effects on humankind and the environment. He's praised labor unions as “prophets” and called unbridled capitalism the “dung of the devil,” a tendency that makes some right-leaning ...

At the turn of the millennium, two very different 'world-views' were published, viz Capitalism in Crisis, by Fidel Castro, and The Crisis of Global Capitalism, by George Soros. For a communist and a capitalist to agree so strongly that 'we are in crisis' suggests that something is definitely going wrong. Now, a mere 18 years into ...

A first in global capitalism, US citizen consumer credit card debt has now topped $1 trillion. For the first time in history, consumer credit card debt in America has risen above the benchmark $1 trillion measure, according to Washington DC-based online personal finance website Wallethub.com. Rev. William ...

In the end, “Enlightenment Now” is an erudite defense of the status quo and an apology for global capitalism (not surprisingly, the second-wealthiest man in the world as of this writing, Bill Gates, has named Pinker's new book his “new favorite book of all time”). Though Pinker calls himself a classical liberal, ...

That T'Challa opens up to “good” globalization but is also supported by its repressive embodiment, the CIA, demonstrates that there is no real tension between the two: African aesthetics are made seamlessly compatible with global capitalism; tradition and ultra-modernity blend together. What the beautiful ...

The opening up of China to global capitalism by Deng Xiaoping also opened up the minds of the Chinese people to the world. Many Overseas Chinese talents returned from the developed countries of the West to China, bringing with them the knowledge and culture to advance China's science and ...

The mask of cultural diversity is sustained by the actual universalism of global capital. And this new global capitalism functions even better if its political supplement relies on so-called 'Asian values'. Global capitalism has no problem in accommodating itself to a plurality of local religions, cultures, traditions.

Global capitalism's dense entanglements find a way to implicate everyone, eventually. Giant factories in the United States today can sometimes feel like ghosts. The cheap goods that they used to create still appear on shelves, even if they're now coming from Mexico or Taiwan. Many of the cities that were ...

By 2014, he had summed up the systemic character of West-versus-Rest exploitation, with a strong institutional focus, and drawing on the finest structural (including Marxist) critiques of global capitalism. His last three books deserve space in any concerned citizen's library: A History of Inequality in South ...

Trade minister David Parker said: "I am trying to protect New Zealanders against some of the excesses of global capitalism. "We think that some of the difficulties that are arising in politics around the world are driven by an insecurity of middle class citizens in their own country who feel that their interests are ...

From the time of the crash of 2008, I have been among the voices that warned of a prolonged recession (I called it New Depression) which global capitalism would not climb out of for a protracted period. Though not as serious as the Great Depression of the 1930s, thanks to new recession fighting tools ...

Yet, after World War Two the resumption of capitalist accumulation undid the New Deal and has since returned modern global capitalism to new depths of inequality. What Piketty proposes now again as a remedy proved then to be merely temporary. The reversal was itself reversed. After 1945, corporations ...

But the more important point is that Western states and their citizens are becoming increasingly alert to the need fundamentally to reappraise the value of the integrated global capitalism they have more or less promoted since the early 1990s. I am not talking about a reappraisal in light of the inequality that ...

And they understand that these are problems that poor people face worldwide. Filipino labor organizer Josua Mata argues that global capitalism is the new colonialism. He recalls a moment in the early 1990s when that dawned on Philippine activists. "We were just starting to grasp what was happening," he ...