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Behind the painted face of capitalism: editorial WL25, August 2002 Review of Robert Brenner's The boom and the bubbleWorldCom collapses, stock market dips: is a capitalist Ice Age coming?by Colin Foster, WL25, August 2002. "Capitalism has had a rotten time lately", says the big business magazine The Economist. "Not as rotten as in 1917..." (when the Russian workers took state power) it adds, in case its readers panic. Two critiques "empire" and "new imperialism" by Martin Thomas, July 2002. 64Kb PDF (An assessment of Hardt and Negri's Empire, and the analysis of 21st century capitalism employed by the SWP/ISO as put forward by Callinicos and Rees) Globalisation and its discontents by Martin Thomas Capital writ large by Martin Thomas. In many ways capital has been global since the 16th century, and there is a lot of exaggeration and hype in the talk about globalisation today. But there are four developments which are relatively new in the last 10 years or so. New forces and passions by Chris Reynolds. July 2000. To today's capitalist globalisation there, are fundamentally, two possible working-class responses. One is proposed, for example, by Robin Hahnel in his book Panic Rules (amidst much clear and valuable critique): 'We must act like Lilliputian Luddites first and stop corporate-sponsored globalisation by any means necessary. After corporate hegemony and the present system of global pillage have been defeated, our Lilliputian movement can cease to act like Luddites and begin to build a system of international equitable co-operation from below.' ... |