[P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Oligarchies of the World Unite by Van der Pijl

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:51 AM
Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Oligarchies of the World Unite by Van der Pijl
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Finally finished Van der Pijl's The Discipline of Western Supremacy.
Together with Molecular Red it is my nomination for all times best read.

Below is the abstract of a new paper from the author, which puts
un-informational dimension of global rivalries in its place. another
must read:


Oligarchies of the World Unite
https://www.academia.edu/12423426/Oligarchies_of_the_World_Unite

Kees van der Pijl

Abstract
The argument of this paper is that after the crisis of 2008 which has
turned into an enduring stagnation amidst proliferating violence,
capitalist property relations are increasingly being upheld by
authoritarian means. The mode of production and social organisation,
including the supremacy of the West in international affairs, has lost
its self-evidence in the face of a deepening crisis of the biosphere and
the effective running aground of the accumulation process on a world
scale. Under these circumstances processes of class formation on both
sides of the historic divide between a liberal West and a series of
contender  states are converging along the lines of authoritarian,
oligarchic capitalism.

The paper argues that corporate liberal capitalism based on class
compromise in the 1980s was displaced by to neoliberalism, initially
intended to restore systemic market discipline but increasingly
degenerating into speculative, predatory forms undermining the forces of
stability in the global political economy and fostering oligarchic
enrichment. A contradiction is identified between global oligarchic
convergence on the one hand and conflict at the level of political
(governing and state) elites on the other, and which explains the
current turbulence in the global political economy.

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Orsan
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