- The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations
- Issue: 37
- THE NEW GLOBAL CLASS ARCHITECTURE: NEOLIBERALISM AND CLASS FORMATİON
THE NEW GLOBAL CLASS ARCHITECTURE: NEOLIBERALISM AND CLASS FORMATİON
Authors : Eddie J. Gardner
Pages : 63-95
Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000131
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Publication Date : 2006-05-01
Article Type : Research
Abstract :This paper will argue that within actually-existing neoliberal capitalism today there are crucial contradictions vvhich cannot be overcome. Among these are the inability to generate sufficient employment, inequality on a global scale, the continuation of imperialism and imperialist vvars, continued enclosure and pauperization, ecological crises, overproduction and under consumption, the enormous waste of human potential on a global scale, and the forging of a global vvorking class vvhich is in an ever more precarious position. At the same time, neoliberalism tends to fragment consciousness, drovvning class avvareness in a sea of consumerism, vvhich is making organizing and class struggle more diffıcult. Resistance tends to take perverted or alienated forms as seen in religious fundamentalism, ethnic chauvinism and random terrorist acts, often in reaction to state terrorism. The ruling classes encourage these tendencies to help divert attention from the crucial contradictions of exploitation under capitalism and imperialismKeywords : THE NEW GLOBAL CLASS ARCHITECTURE, NEOLIBERALISM AND CLASS FORMATİON, This paper will argue