Assault on paradise: perspectives on globalization and class struggles

Globalization is a term that describes the contradictory economic, political, and cultural processes of world capitalist integration. Although capitalism has been of a global character since the 1400s, the contemporary phase of globalization is manifest by emergent transnational institutions, changing relations between multinational corporations and assaulted paradise of sovereign nation-states and the development of a global monoculture of consumption among feuding class divides. This book examines the relationship between globalization and nation states, the dynamics, contradictions, and crisis of global capitalism, and the developing and maturing class struggles and the prospects for social change and transformation of global capitalism. It examines these class struggles within the context of the globalization of capital and draws out the political implications of this process for the future course of capitalist development on a world scale. In this book, the author drives home the point that contemporary neoliberal globalization is in fact an advanced stage of capitalist hegemonism and that the contradictions of twenty-first century globalization are thus a projection of the contradictions of capitalism on a global scale, with all its inherent exploitative characteristics and militarized class conflicts that will lead to the revolutionary transformation of vulture capitalist society. He argues that dominant global processes are not an immutable feature of capitalism, but are contested by social class actors across these three dimensions.

Historical overview -- Contra "Post-Marxist" critique of Marxist class analysis -- The class struggle is here to stay -- The retreat from race and class -- Capital, labour, state & class struggle -- Understanding class analysis : a Marxist approach -- Marxist theory and capitalist class structures -- Marxism and contemporary capitalism -- Class struggles against capitalist imperialism -- Class struggles in the era of imaginary capitalism and imaginary democracy -- [The Myth of Passivity : Occupy Movement and Riots] -- Imperialist world order : protests against misery for profits -- Theoretical reprise, conclusion and music of the future.