Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

This exciting new study provides an original and provocative expos of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions economic political social ecological military and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization William I. Robinson discusses the nature of the new global capitalism the rise of a globalized production and financial system a transnational capitalist class and a transnational state and warns of the rise of a global police state to contain the explosive contradictions of a global capitalist system that is crisis-ridden and out of control. Robinson concludes with an exploration of how diverse social and political forces are responding to the crisis and alternative scenarios for the future.