THE NEW GLOBAL CLASS ARCHITECTURE:  NEOLIBERALISM AND CLASS FORMATİON

Eddie J. GARDNER

doi:https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000131

Article Details

THE NEW GLOBAL CLASS ARCHITECTURE: NEOLIBERALISM AND CLASS FORMATİON

Authors:

Eddie J. GARDNER

Publisher:

Ankara University

Main Topics:

Political science

Journal:

The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations 2006 Issue 37, pp.63-95

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

4/2006

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000668699

Frequency:

Annual

eISSN:

2667-5382

pISSN:

0544-1943

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000131

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 imperialism.

Article Details

THE NEW GLOBAL CLASS ARCHITECTURE: NEOLIBERALISM AND CLASS FORMATİON

Authors: Eddie J. GARDNER

Publisher: Ankara University

Main Topics: Political science

Journal: The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations 2006 Issue 37, pp.63-95

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 4/2006

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000668699

Frequency: Annual

eISSN: 2667-5382

pISSN: 0544-1943

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000131

Issues

Authors:

Eddie J. GARDNER

Publisher:

Ankara University

Main Topics:

Political science

Journal:

The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations 2006 Issue 37, pp.63-95

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

4/2006

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000668699

Frequency:

Annual

eISSN:

2667-5382

pISSN:

0544-1943

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000131