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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Editors' introduction -- PART I Globalization: the relevance of historical materialist approaches -- 1 Global capital, national states -- 2 How many capitalisms? Historical materialism in the debates about imperialism and globalization -- 3 The search for relevance: historical materialism after the Cold War -- 4 The pertinence of imperialism -- 5 A flexible Marxism for flexible times: globalization and historical materialism -- PART II Historical materialism as a theory of globalization

This book examines the key debates about globalization and provides a detailed and incisive analysis of the varied and often contradictory opposition to globalization within the United States.Subjects covered include:* the historical context of the development of globalization in the US in the post-war period* opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs (GATT) & the World Trade Organisation (WTO)* the nationalist response to globalization from 'militia' groups and others on the extreme right* the populist backl

Timely, informative and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those seeking to understand American politics and current developments within the global political economy.

1. Introduction -- 2. Marx, Gramsci, and possibilities for radical renewal in IPE -- 3. The quality of global power: a relational view of neoliberal hegemony -- 4. The emergence of mass production practices and productivist ideology -- 5. State-society relations and the politics of industrial transformation in the United States -- 6. Fordism vs. unionism: production politics and ideological struggle at Ford Motor Company, 1914-1937 -- 7. Unionism is Americanism: production politics and ideological struggle at Ford Motor Company, 1937-1952 -- 8. Fordism and neoliberal hegemony: tensions and possibilities

Observing that recent mass protest movements against neoliberal capitalist globalization have tended to espouse more anarchist than Marxist ideologies, explored here is whether an anarchist-led counterhegemonic bloc is an "oxymoron" or a valid new form of radical politics. The influence of the Zapatista revolutionaries of Chiapas, Mexico, on the anarchist turn taken by the antiglobalization movement is described, showing how the struggle against neoliberalism has become equated with a struggle for social justice & the rights of all oppressed peoples, which globalizing capitalism is seen as suppressing. An emphasis on a "radical reclaiming of the commons" & community-based, democratic, self-determination holds broad appeal for a wide range of groups beyond anarchists, including indigenous people's movements, feminists, progressive unionists, & socialists. Social anarchist activity at demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1998 & Seattle, WA, in 1999 is reviewed, & examples of several militant groups & their agendas are offered. Analysis of the "five hallmarks" of one such group -- People's Global Action -- clearly demonstrates its anarchist heritage. K. Hyatt Stewart

The impoverishment of mainstream International Relations (IR) scholarship, especially as it is practised in the bastions of academic power and respectability in the United States, can be registered in terms of its wilful and continuing conceptual blindness to mutually constitutive relations of governance/resistance at work in the production of global politics. This has been underscored in recent years by the rise of powerful transnational social movements seeking to reform or transform global capitalism, a coalition of coalitions recently reincarnated in the form of a global peace movement opposing the blatantly neo-imperial turn in US foreign policy. As the essays in this Special Issue attest, critical scholars of world politics have developed conceptual vocabularies with which to (re-)construct, from various analytical-political perspectives, aspects of these governance/resistance relations. My task in this article is to argue that – under historical circumstances of capitalist modernity – a dialectical understanding of class-based powers is necessary, if by no means sufficient, for understanding social powers more generally, and issues of global governance and resistance which implicate those powers. Although it is not without its tensions and limitations, I have found re-envisionings of Marxian political theory inspired by Western Marxism – and in particular by interpretations of Antonio Gramsci – to be enabling for such a project. Marxian theory provides critical leverage for understanding the structures and dynamics of capitalism, its integral if complex relationship to the modern form of state, the class-based powers it enables and the resistances these engender; and Gramsci's rich if eternally inchoate legacy suggests a conceptual vocabulary for a transformative politics in which a variety of anti-capitalist movements might coalesce in order to produce any number of future possible worlds whose very possibility is occluded by capitalism. In the present context of globalising capitalism and neo-imperialism, such resistance has taken the form of a transnational confluence of movements for global justice and peace.