A World Turned Upside Down?

Edited by : Greg Albo, Leo Panitch

9789380118734

LeftWord Books 2019

Language: English

372 Pages

6.25 x 9.25 Inches

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About the Book

Since the Great Financial Crisis swept across the world in 2008, there have been few certainties regarding the trajectory of global capitalism, let alone the politics taking hold in individual states. This has now given way to palpable confusion regarding what sense to make of this world in a political conjuncture marked by Donald Trump's 'Make America Great Again' presidency of the United States, on the one hand, and, on the other, Xi Jinping's ambitious agenda in consolidating his position as 'core leader' at the top of the Chinese state.


Some of the questions dealt with here are:–


* Is a major redrawing of the map of global capitalism underway?


* Is an unwinding of globalization in train, or will it continue, but with closure to the mobility of labour?


* Is there a legitimacy crisis for neoliberalism even while neoliberal practices continue to form state policy?


* Are we witnessing an authoritarian mutation of liberal democracy in the 21st century?


* Should the strategic issues today be posed in terms of 'socialism versus barbarism redux'?

Greg Albo
Greg Albo teaches political economy at the Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto. He is currently co-editor of the Socialist Register. He is also on the editorial boards of Studies in Political Economy, Relay, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Canadian Dimension, The Bullet and Historical Materialism (England). Co-editor of A Different Kind of State: Popular Power and Democratic Administration and author of numerous articles in journals such as Studies in Political Economy, Socialist Register, Canadian Dimension, and Monthly Review.

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Leo Panitch
Leo Victor Panitch, (born May 3, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University. Since 1985, he has served as co-editor of the Socialist Register, which describes itself as "an annual survey of movements and ideas from the standpoint of the independent new left". Panitch himself sees the Register as playing a major role in developing Marxism's conceptual framework for advancing a democratic, co-operative and egalitarian, socialist alternative to capitalist competition, exploitation and insecurity.

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