- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Pluto Press (20 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745321836
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One of neo-liberalism's greatest crimes is to downgrade history, and the history of ideas. This book digs deep into history and, in a timely way, celebrates an intellectual but practical approach to the social, economic and environmental threats posed by globalisation. (Ann Pettifor, Senior Associate, New Economics Foundation and Editor, Real World Economic Outlook )
A book that isn't afraid to call today's specific 'globalization' process by its proper name - another phase of imperialism! By doing so, the contributors, coming from different parts of the world and therefore providing graphic accounts of the geographically diverse impacts of this imperialism, are able to link the political (the US drive towards global empire) and the economic (neoliberal dominance) in the best traditions of historical and holistic scholarship. ... Strongly recommended for those wishing to understand the damage that is being wreaked in the name of promoting global prosperity and democracy. (Achin Vanaik )
A book that isn't afraid to call today's specific 'globalization' process by its proper name - another phase of imperialism! By doing so, the contributors, coming from different parts of the world and therefore providing graphic accounts of the geographically diverse impacts of this imperialism, are able to link the political (the US drive towards global empire) and the economic (neoliberal dominance) in the best traditions of historical and holistic scholarship. ... Strongly recommended for those wishing to understand the damage that is being wreaked in the name of promoting global prosperity and democracy. (Achin Vanaik )
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"One of neo-liberalism's greatest crimes is to downgrade the history of ideas. This book digs deep into history and, in a timely way, celebrates an intellectual but practical approach to the social, economic and environmental threats posed by globalisation." Ann Pettifor, Senior Associate, New Economics Foundation and Editor, Real World Economic Outlook
"A book that isn't afraid to call today's specific 'globalization' process by its proper name – another phase of imperialism! ... Strongly recommended for those wishing to understand the damage that is being wreaked in the name of promoting global prosperity and democracy." Achin Vanaik
Bringing together nine leading writers and activists from around the world, this book explores the origins of a new age of Empire.
The contributors show globalisation is the driving force behind the new and warlike period that began with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Writers including Walden Bello, Jayati Ghosh, Kate Hudson, Boris Kagarlitsky and Alan Freeman offer a wealth of factual evidence showing that globalisation has driven apart peoples, classes and nations, shaping and reshaping key regions of the world. Challenging the idea that it is inevitable, they argue that its economic contradictions have thrown the world order that sustained it into crisis.
Globalisation's opponents are shaping a new intellectual tradition. For the first time, the book brings together the critiques thrown up by resistance to globalisation, to war, and to imperialism. Free from ideology and dogma, the book shows how the peace and anti-globalisation movements can join forces and face the coming period of world history.
Essential reading for anyone involved in the peace and anti-globalisation movements, this book is also ideal for students of politics, economics and international relations.
"A book that isn't afraid to call today's specific 'globalization' process by its proper name – another phase of imperialism! ... Strongly recommended for those wishing to understand the damage that is being wreaked in the name of promoting global prosperity and democracy." Achin Vanaik
Bringing together nine leading writers and activists from around the world, this book explores the origins of a new age of Empire.
The contributors show globalisation is the driving force behind the new and warlike period that began with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Writers including Walden Bello, Jayati Ghosh, Kate Hudson, Boris Kagarlitsky and Alan Freeman offer a wealth of factual evidence showing that globalisation has driven apart peoples, classes and nations, shaping and reshaping key regions of the world. Challenging the idea that it is inevitable, they argue that its economic contradictions have thrown the world order that sustained it into crisis.
Globalisation's opponents are shaping a new intellectual tradition. For the first time, the book brings together the critiques thrown up by resistance to globalisation, to war, and to imperialism. Free from ideology and dogma, the book shows how the peace and anti-globalisation movements can join forces and face the coming period of world history.
Essential reading for anyone involved in the peace and anti-globalisation movements, this book is also ideal for students of politics, economics and international relations.
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Format:Paperback
This collection, edited by Alan Freeman and Boris Kagarlitsky, provides an analysis of globalization from a Marxist point of view, focusing particularly on the large-scale economic processes visible in the world today, and on comparisons with earlier periods of capitalism.
The collection itself is quite useful in terms of data and statistics, providing ample evidence for any doubter to refute such liberal ideas as that markets lead to convergence, that unified markets tend to create political unification, that liberalization of the economies has led to greater prosperity in the Third World, and that a freer market explains why the United States generally does better than continental Europe and Japan.
Nevertheless, there are some serious problems with this book. The main one, immediately apparent, is the annoying rhetorical tone adopted throughout and the general anti-American sentiment in it. Hardly a paragraph goes by or phrases such as "bellicose imperialism", "New World Order hegemons", etc. etc. are used to describe America. Some of it might be deserved, but nevertheless the constant tone reminds one of the stupidest aspects of modern-day radical leftism, and suits the Michael Moore crowd much better than a critical Marxist reader. The book would have gained enormously if this tone had been abandoned and they had stuck by the facts, which are bad enough as is. This goes in particular for the idiotic conspiracy article by Turkish Marxist Sungur Savran in this collection.
The second major problem is that the book argues, in the (otherwise quite good) introduction that globalization can essentially be considered a new form of the old imperialism of the 19th Century. Strangely enough, hardly any evidence of this is further given, and none of the articles in the collection itself are a defense of this particular view. One certainly gets the impression that it might be true from all sorts of circumstancial evidence given in the context of other analyses in the book, which are fine on their own, but the actual connection is never made. This is odd to say the least.
What saves the book are the exceedingly good articles by the book's editors themselves, Freeman and Kagarlitsky. Freeman's article shows both the reality and the causes of the inequality of nations today, and establishes irrefutably that liberalization in the past decades has not improved the lot of those not already best off to begin with. Kagarlitsky in turn gives a socialist view of the current international relations between the various Western states, including Russia, in particular focusing on the European Union. This is very well done and one wishes it were longer. Of some additional interest is also the article by Patrick Bond about "global apartheid" (another such rhetorical flourish) which gives a good overview of the issues facing developing nations in combating the power of the IMF, World Bank etc.
On the whole, I would advise to buy this book to read the articles by Freeman and Kagarlitsky. Unfortunately, I wouldn't bother reading any of the rest.
The collection itself is quite useful in terms of data and statistics, providing ample evidence for any doubter to refute such liberal ideas as that markets lead to convergence, that unified markets tend to create political unification, that liberalization of the economies has led to greater prosperity in the Third World, and that a freer market explains why the United States generally does better than continental Europe and Japan.
Nevertheless, there are some serious problems with this book. The main one, immediately apparent, is the annoying rhetorical tone adopted throughout and the general anti-American sentiment in it. Hardly a paragraph goes by or phrases such as "bellicose imperialism", "New World Order hegemons", etc. etc. are used to describe America. Some of it might be deserved, but nevertheless the constant tone reminds one of the stupidest aspects of modern-day radical leftism, and suits the Michael Moore crowd much better than a critical Marxist reader. The book would have gained enormously if this tone had been abandoned and they had stuck by the facts, which are bad enough as is. This goes in particular for the idiotic conspiracy article by Turkish Marxist Sungur Savran in this collection.
The second major problem is that the book argues, in the (otherwise quite good) introduction that globalization can essentially be considered a new form of the old imperialism of the 19th Century. Strangely enough, hardly any evidence of this is further given, and none of the articles in the collection itself are a defense of this particular view. One certainly gets the impression that it might be true from all sorts of circumstancial evidence given in the context of other analyses in the book, which are fine on their own, but the actual connection is never made. This is odd to say the least.
What saves the book are the exceedingly good articles by the book's editors themselves, Freeman and Kagarlitsky. Freeman's article shows both the reality and the causes of the inequality of nations today, and establishes irrefutably that liberalization in the past decades has not improved the lot of those not already best off to begin with. Kagarlitsky in turn gives a socialist view of the current international relations between the various Western states, including Russia, in particular focusing on the European Union. This is very well done and one wishes it were longer. Of some additional interest is also the article by Patrick Bond about "global apartheid" (another such rhetorical flourish) which gives a good overview of the issues facing developing nations in combating the power of the IMF, World Bank etc.
On the whole, I would advise to buy this book to read the articles by Freeman and Kagarlitsky. Unfortunately, I wouldn't bother reading any of the rest.
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This collection, edited by Alan Freeman and Boris Kagarlitsky, provides an analysis of globalization from a Marxist point of view, focusing particularly on the large-scale economic processes visible in the world today, and on comparisons with earlier periods of capitalism.
The collection itself is quite useful in terms of data and statistics, providing ample evidence for any doubter to refute such liberal ideas as that markets lead to convergence, that unified markets tend to create political unification, that liberalization of the economies has led to greater prosperity in the Third World, and that a freer market explains why the United States generally does better than continental Europe and Japan.
Nevertheless, there are some serious problems with this book. The main one, immediately apparent, is the annoying rhetorical tone adopted throughout and the general anti-American sentiment in it. Hardly a paragraph goes by or phrases such as "bellicose imperialism", "New World Order hegemons", etc. etc. are used to describe America. Some of it might be deserved, but nevertheless the constant tone reminds one of the stupidest aspects of modern-day radical leftism, and suits the Michael Moore crowd much better than a critical Marxist reader. The book would have gained enormously if this tone had been abandoned and they had stuck by the facts, which are bad enough as is. This goes in particular for the idiotic conspiracy article by Turkish Marxist Sungur Savran in this collection.
The second major problem is that the book argues, in the (otherwise quite good) introduction that globalization can essentially be considered a new form of the old imperialism of the 19th Century. Strangely enough, hardly any evidence of this is further given, and none of the articles in the collection itself are a defense of this particular view. One certainly gets the impression that it might be true from all sorts of circumstancial evidence given in the context of other analyses in the book, which are fine on their own, but the actual connection is never made. This is odd to say the least.
What saves the book are the exceedingly good articles by the book's editors themselves, Freeman and Kagarlitsky. Freeman's article shows both the reality and the causes of the inequality of nations today, and establishes irrefutably that liberalization in the past decades has not improved the lot of those not already best off to begin with. Kagarlitsky in turn gives a socialist view of the current international relations between the various Western states, including Russia, in particular focusing on the European Union. This is very well done and one wishes it were longer. Of some additional interest is also the article by Patrick Bond about "global apartheid" (another such rhetorical flourish) which gives a good overview of the issues facing developing nations in combating the power of the IMF, World Bank etc.
On the whole, I would advise to buy this book to read the articles by Freeman and Kagarlitsky. Unfortunately, I wouldn't bother reading any of the rest.
The collection itself is quite useful in terms of data and statistics, providing ample evidence for any doubter to refute such liberal ideas as that markets lead to convergence, that unified markets tend to create political unification, that liberalization of the economies has led to greater prosperity in the Third World, and that a freer market explains why the United States generally does better than continental Europe and Japan.
Nevertheless, there are some serious problems with this book. The main one, immediately apparent, is the annoying rhetorical tone adopted throughout and the general anti-American sentiment in it. Hardly a paragraph goes by or phrases such as "bellicose imperialism", "New World Order hegemons", etc. etc. are used to describe America. Some of it might be deserved, but nevertheless the constant tone reminds one of the stupidest aspects of modern-day radical leftism, and suits the Michael Moore crowd much better than a critical Marxist reader. The book would have gained enormously if this tone had been abandoned and they had stuck by the facts, which are bad enough as is. This goes in particular for the idiotic conspiracy article by Turkish Marxist Sungur Savran in this collection.
The second major problem is that the book argues, in the (otherwise quite good) introduction that globalization can essentially be considered a new form of the old imperialism of the 19th Century. Strangely enough, hardly any evidence of this is further given, and none of the articles in the collection itself are a defense of this particular view. One certainly gets the impression that it might be true from all sorts of circumstancial evidence given in the context of other analyses in the book, which are fine on their own, but the actual connection is never made. This is odd to say the least.
What saves the book are the exceedingly good articles by the book's editors themselves, Freeman and Kagarlitsky. Freeman's article shows both the reality and the causes of the inequality of nations today, and establishes irrefutably that liberalization in the past decades has not improved the lot of those not already best off to begin with. Kagarlitsky in turn gives a socialist view of the current international relations between the various Western states, including Russia, in particular focusing on the European Union. This is very well done and one wishes it were longer. Of some additional interest is also the article by Patrick Bond about "global apartheid" (another such rhetorical flourish) which gives a good overview of the issues facing developing nations in combating the power of the IMF, World Bank etc.
On the whole, I would advise to buy this book to read the articles by Freeman and Kagarlitsky. Unfortunately, I wouldn't bother reading any of the rest.
Leopards and Spots
27 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
Excellent anthology. The Introduction alone is worth the price, as Kagarlitsky and Freeman subject globalization to a well-parsed analysis that includes role of nation-state, polarization, imperialism, US hegemony, et. al. This well-stocked 40 page intro is not only a complete viewpoint in itself, but furnishes an overview for the more detailed case studies that follow. Sungar Savran's discussion of globalization and the New World Order is particularly provocative: globalization stands as an outgrowth of capital's basic laws and -- contrary to many on the Left -- not as a transformation of them. A major theme centers on the emerging competition between American and European economic blocs, thus challenging "harmonization" of capital being advanced by many postmodern theorists (Hardt & Negri, among others). I think it's fair to observe that their corporate view amounts to an updating of key theses from Marxism's classic period. Also of note is Kagarlitsky's probing of prospects for worker and community production in place of older centralized planning paradigm. Given capital's steady strangulation of the planet and its people, some such alternate vision could hardly be more urgent. All in all, this is a welcome addition to the intensifying debate on the Left concerning the future of globalization.
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