VELTMEYER HENRY

Η ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΧΩΡΙΣ ΜΑΣΚΑ
Στο βιβλίο αυτό οι συγγραφείς υποστηρίζουν ότι η «παγκοσμιοποίηση» δεν αποτελεί παρά μια νέα μορφή ιμπεριαλισμού. Το «αναπόφευκτο» της παγκοσμιοποίησης και η προσαρμογή ή η υποταγή των λαών όλου του κόσμου στον καπιταλισμό της ελεύθερης αγοράς εξαρτώνται, όπως αναφέρουν, από την ικανότητα των κυρίαρχων να υποτάσσουν τους λαούς στις επιταγές τους και να πείθουν ότι τα δικά τους συμφέροντα ταυτίζονται με αυτά των λαών. Ένα στοιχείο κλειδί για την ερμηνεία της παγκοσμιοποίησης και την οργάνωση της αντίστασης ενάντια σ' αυτήν αποτελεί η κατανό...
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(P/B) SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND STATE POWER
The 2003 electoral victory of Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador was met with the same sense of optimism that greeted the election of Ignacio 'Lula' da Silva in Brazil, and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Gutierrez's victory was viewed as a major advance for the country in its 500 year-long struggle for freedom and democracy. In Bolivia, Evo Morales similarly came within an electoral whisker of achieving state power in 2002, and in 2003 Nestor Kirchner became President of Argentina. Many journalists , academics and politicians speak of a "left-turn"...
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(P/B) SYSTEM IN CRISIS
Mounting hostility to the hegemony of the United States. Stock markets around the world falling to unanticipated lows. Environmental destruction continuing unchecked. Sluggish economic growth. Unprecedented income inequality. Ever larger numbers of desperately poor people. Something is fundamentally wrong. Globalization is a system in crisis. This book explores this crisis as the United States tries to impose itself on the world under the guise of its war on terrorism. It examines its economic, ecological and political manifestations, and ...
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(P/B) EMPIRE WITH IMPERIALISM
Until its recent revival the term "imperialism" had virtually disappeared from academic and political discourse. Today, however, the notion of imperialism, particularly regarding the aggressive projection of state power by the Bush administration, has been put back on the agenda. It has begun to replace the notion of "globalization" as a framework for grasping worldwide economic, social and political developments. This book explores these events. It looks at the transformations in capitalist development over the past two decades, and the g...
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