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Affirming Antonio Gramsci’s continuing influence, this adroitly
cultivated Companion offers a comprehensive overview of Gramsci’s
contributions to the interdisciplinary fields of critical social
science, social and political thought, economics and emancipatory
politics. Within the tradition of historical materialism, it
explores the continuing impact of Gramscian perspectives in the
present day. Featuring contributions from eminent scholars, the
Companion engages with Gramsci’s thought in the broader context
of his life, outlining his innovative theoretical and historical
analyses of capitalist modernity. Key themes within Gramscian
theory are examined such as historical bloc, passive revolution,
integral state, and civil society, which elaborate upon the core
concept of hegemony. Chapters map out the development of historical
materialism and rigorously analyse contemporary issues of urgency
including climate breakdown, the rise of far-right populism, and
increasing geopolitical tension. Offering a state-of-the-art review
of Gramscian theory, this Companion will prove beneficial to
academics, researchers and students from across the social sciences
and humanities, and will be essential reading for those interested
in political economy and political theory, sociology, philosophy,
radical and feminist economics, environmental studies, gender
studies, and post-colonial and cultural studies.
Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of
corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by
controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But
corporate power also reaches into civil society and politics in
many ways that greatly constrain democracy. In Organizing the 1%,
William K. Carroll and J.P. Sapinski provide a unique,
evidence-based perspective on corporate power in Canada and
illustrate the various ways it directs and shapes economic,
political and cultural life. A highly accessible introduction to
Marxist political economy, Carroll and Sapinski delve into the
capitalist economic system at the root of corporate wealth and
power and analyze the ways the capitalist class dominates over
contemporary Canadian society. The authors illustrate how corporate
power perpetuates inequality and injustice. They follow the
development of corporate power through Canadian history, from its
roots in settler-colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous
peoples from their land, to the concentration of capital into giant
corporations in the late nineteenth century. More recently,
capitalist globalization and the consolidation of a market-driven
neoliberal regime have dramatically enhanced corporate power while
exacerbating social and economic inequalities. The result is our
current oligarchic order, where power is concentrated in a few
corporations that are controlled by the super-wealthy and organized
into a cohesive corporate elite. Finally, Carroll and Sapinski
offer possibilities for placing corporate power where it actually
belongs: in the dustbin of history.
Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of
Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global
climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The
urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding,
but effective action. Regime of Obstruction aims to make visible
the complex connections between corporate power and the extraction
and use of carbon energy. Edited by William Carroll, this rigorous
collection presents research findings from the first three years of
the seven-year, SSHRC-funded partnership, the Corporate Mapping
Project. Anchored in sociological and political theory, this
comprehensive volume provides hard data and empirical research that
traces the power and influence of the fossil fuel industry through
economics, politics, media, and higher education. Contributors
demonstrate how corporations secure popular consent, and coopt,
disorganize, or marginalize dissenting perspectives to position the
fossil fuel industry as a national public good. They also
investigate the difficult position of Indigenous communities who,
while suffering the worst environmental and health impacts from
carbon extraction, must fight for their land or participate in
fossil capitalism to secure income and jobs. The volume concludes
with a look at emergent forms of activism and resistance, spurred
by the fact that a just energy transition is still feasible. This
book provides essential context to the climate crisis and will
transform discussions of energy democracy. Contributions by Laurie
Adkin, Angele Alook, Clifford Atleo, Emilia Belliveau-Thompson,
John Bermingham, Paul Bowles, Gwendolyn Blue, Shannon Daub, Jessica
Dempsey, Emily Eaton, Chuka Ejeckam, Simon Enoch, Nick Graham,
Shane Gunster, Mark Hudson, Jouke Huizer, Ian Hussey, Emma Jackson,
Michael Lang, James Lawson, Marc Lee, Fiona MacPhail, Alicia
Massie, Kevin McCartney, Bob Neubauer, Eric Pineault, Lise Margaux
Rajewicz, James Rowe, JP Sapinsky, Karena Shaw, and Zoe Yunker.
BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies of Brazil,
Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the
Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism
challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance
to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism. It offers
novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced
imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis tendencies (such as
climate change and water scarcity), contradictory dynamics inside
BRICS countries and growing subaltern resistance. The authors
revisit contemporary thinking on imperialism and anti-imperialism,
drawing on the work of Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leading theorists
after Marx, who attempted to understand the expansionary nature of
capitalism from the heartlands to the peripheries. The richness of
Luxemburg's pioneering work inspires most of the volume's
contributors in their analyses of the dangerous contradictions of
the contemporary world as well as forms of democratic agency
advancing resistance. While various forms of resistance are
highlighted, among them water protests, mass worker strikes,
anti-corporate campaigning and forms of cultural critique, this
volume grapples with the challenge of renewing anti-imperialism
beyond the NGO-driven World Social Forum and considers the
prospects of a new horizontal political vessel to build global
convergence. It also explores the prospects of a Fifth
International of Peoples and Workers.
Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary
exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for
historical injustices. Demonstrating that 'reparations politics'
has become one of the most important features of international
politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case
and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major
aspect of international affairs in coming years. In addition to
broad theoretical and philosophical reflection, the book includes
discussions of the politics of reparations in specific countries
and regions, including the United States, France, Latin America,
Japan, Canada, and Rwanda. The volume presents a nuanced,
historically grounded, and critical perspective on the many
campaigns for reparations currently afoot in a variety of contexts
around the world. All readers working or teaching in the fields of
transitional justice, the politics of memory, and social movements
will find this book a rich and provocative contribution to this
complex debate.
The contributors to this volume draw on a non-dogmatic Marxist
approach to explain the systemic and conjunctural dynamics of
crisis inherent in global capitalism. Their analysis asks what is
historically specific to capitalism's crises while avoiding
catastrophic or defeatist claims. At the same time the volume
situates left agency within actual patterns of resistance and class
struggle to clarify the potential for transformative change. The
cycle of resistance strengthened by the World Socal Forum and
transnational activism is now punctuated by the experience of the
Arab Spring, the agency of anti-systemic movements, left think
tanks, the Occupy Wall Street Movement, labour unions, left parties
in Europe such as Syrizia and Podemos and peoples' budgeting in
Kerala, India. On the down side, we are witnessing the waning of
the Workers Party in Brazil and serious challenges for South
Africa's once powerful labour movement and still formative social
justice activism. All these developments are assessed in this
volume. This is the second volume in the Democratic Marxism series.
It elaborates on crucial themes introduced in the first volume,
Marxism in the 21st Century: Crisis, Critique and Struggle (edited
by Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar).
The problems of, and prospects for, a social-democratic government
in contemporary Canada are explored in this in-depth analysis of
governance at the provincial level during the 1990s and the early
21st century. Specific attention is paid to the competitive
nationalism of the Parti Quebecois, the pragmatic idealism of the
New Democratic Party (NDP) in Manitoba, and the NDP's embrace of
Third Way neoliberalism. Through five case studies, this
examination details the constraints of neoliberal globalization and
the resulting effects on the governments in different
provinces.
Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a
hypermarket where money talks. For the majority of people around
the globe, this translates as precarity and immiseration. But how
can we break from this dominant ideological framework? Expose,
Oppose, Propose details how, since the mid 1970s, transnational
alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have functioned as think tanks of
a different sort, generating resources for a globalization from
below in dialogue with the critical social movements that are
protagonists for global justice. Based on two years of intensive
research, William Carroll not only provides a detailed examination
of a variety of TAPGs - showing how each group is distinctive and
autonomous in its vision, practical priorities, and ways of
producing and mobilizing alternative knowledge - but also reveals
how TAPGs form a master frame that advocates and envisages global
justice and ecological wellbeing.
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in
global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist
class, triggered by economic and political transformations that
have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business
from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William
Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite
relations among the world's largest corporations and related
political organizations. Carroll provides an in-depth analysis that
spans the three decades of the late 20th and early 21st century,
when capitalist globalization attained unprecedented momentum,
propelled both by the transnationalization of accumulation and by
the political paradigm of transnational neoliberalism. This has
been an era in which national governments have deregulated capital,
international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and
the World Economic Forum have gained prominence, and production and
finance have become more fully transnational, increasing the
structural power of capital over communities and workers. Within
this context of transformation, this book charts the making of a
transnational capitalist class, reaching beyond national forms of
capitalist class organization into a global field, but facing
spirited opposition from below in an ongoing struggle that is also
a struggle over alternative global futures.
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in
global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist
class, triggered by economic and political transformations that
have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business
from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William
Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite
relations among the world's largest corporations and related
political organizations. Carroll provides an in-depth analysis that
spans the three decades of the late 20th and early 21st century,
when capitalist globalization attained unprecedented momentum,
propelled both by the transnationalization of accumulation and by
the political paradigm of transnational neoliberalism. This has
been an era in which national governments have deregulated capital,
international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and
the World Economic Forum have gained prominence, and production and
finance have become more fully transnational, increasing the
structural power of capital over communities and workers. Within
this context of transformation, the book charts the making of a
transnational capitalist class, reaching beyond national forms of
capitalist class organization into a global field, but facing
spirited opposition from below in an ongoing struggle that is also
a struggle over alternative global futures.
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