The twilight of globalization : property, state and capitalism / Boris Kagarlitsky ; translated by Renfrey Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kagarlitsky, Boris, 1958-

Series:

Recasting Marxism.

Recasting Marxism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Capitalism.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the second of his studies of globalisation and capitalism, Boris Kagarlitsky assesses the role of the state in the globalised world. He argues that far from being powerless and irrelevant, the state can and should play a significant role in the twenty-first century.Kagarlitsky challenges the notion that globalisation is a completely new phenomenon. However, transformation of the state in response to globalisation is according to Kagarlitsky urgently needed, and in order for the state to once again play a key role in the economy, it must change radically.Kagarlitsky examines questions of state intervention in the economy and draws on examples from Russia and the Czech Republic to show new ways in which the state sector is being recreated. He demonstrates that even without the participation of the left, a spontaneous recreation of the state sector is emerging in response to neo-liberalism. Kagarlitsky also discusses the national question and looks at cases in the former USSR, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. He argues that failure of socialists to link the question of self-determination to other democratic rights has meant socialists have been slow to respond in the wake of the developing nationalist movements.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The New Big Brother

1 The State and Globalization

Democracy and the Market

The Logic of Globalizaton

The 'Impotence of the State'

The Weakness of Globalized Capitalism

Neo- liberal Hegemony vs. Democracy

'Objective Limitations'

Citizenship in Decline

Soldiers and Citizens

Towards the New State

2 Is Nationalization Dead?

'Socialized' Private Property? ?

Self-management Alternative

Collective Property

The Mobilization Model

The Myth of 'Inefficient State Enterprise'

Public Sector 'Success Stories'

Privatized 'Potemkin Villages'

What can Nationalization Achieve?

Transforming the State

New Approach to Property

3 Nations and Nationalism

'Natural' Nations?

Self-determination

'Imperial' and 'Non-historic' Peoples in Eastern Europe

'National Question' or the Problem of Democracy?

Returning to the Old Debates

National Liberation and Capitalism

Bombs and Multiculturalism

The Balkans War

Class or Community?

Internationalism

4 The Third World Labyrinth: Is a Democratic Model Possible?

Socialism and Modernization

Parliamentarism and Authoritarianism

Capitalist Rationality

Beyond 'Models'

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Abraham, R. 88

Afghanistan 97

African National Congress 122

Alapuro, Risto 85

Alatalu, Toomas 107

Albanians

102-3

105

Algeria 109

Alsace-Lorraine 83

Altvater, Elmar 24

Amin, Samir

22

116

Anderson, Benedict 74

Anderson, Perry

40

42

Angola 109

Anresson, Jan Otto 21

anti-imperialism 95-8

APRANET 65

Arabs

79-80

95-6.

Arizmendiarrieta, Jose Maria 45

Armenia 87

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict 82

Armenians

93

94

armies

34

35-6

arms exports 41

asbestos 41

atomic energy 41

atomic weapons 41

Austria 65

Austro-Hungary, collapse of [1918] 81

Austro-Marxists

87

95

authoritarianism 118-20

autonomy, cultural-national

80

86-7

92

AZLK 59

Balkans War [1999]

102-5

Ballaev, Andrey

7

9

Baltic republics 91

Baltic Times 91-2

Baran, Nicholas

66

72

Basaev, Shamil 93

Bauer, G. 89

Belarus

16

84

89

Belotserkovsky, Vadim 49-50

Benn, Tony

103

104

Big Brother

1

2

5

6

78

127-8

Black Sea Fleet 77

Blair, Tony 42

Boer War 106

Bolshevism

75

88

113

118-19

Boron, Atilio 123

Bosnia

82

98-9

100-1

Bosnia-Herzegovina 99

bourgeoisie

14

25

87-8

Bowles, Sam 124

Bratislava 84

Brecher, Jeremy 1-2

Brezhnev, Leonid 2

Brie, Andre and Michel

40-2

43

Britain

8

56

57

Bugaj, Ryszard 64

Bundesbank 41

bureaucracy

and cooperatives 49

in Eastern Europe 114

in European Union 28-9

state 10

state 117

transnational 20-1

Burkina Faso 115

Buzgalin, Aleksandr

63

108-9

Canada

79

capital

and centralization 116

and labour 49

and labour 50

and peripheral societies 116

capitalism

and cooperatives 50

and exploitation 73

and globalization 11

and globalization 12-13

and globalization 39

and infrastructure 67

and laws 17

and modernization 115

and nationalization 52

and nationalization 68-9

and property 60

and property 70

and rationality 120-3

and socialism 124

and state sector 67.

and state sector 68

democratic 121

development of 11-13

global crisis 3

global crisis 25-6

global crisis 39

industrial 75

mercantile 13

municipal 58

neo-liberal 2-3

neo-liberal 127

radical transformation of 2

radical transformation of 43

stakeholder 40

stakeholder 43

state 53

state 64

Castaneda, Jorge G. 118

Castello, Tim 1-2

Castells, Manuel

4

115

Catherine II, [the Great] 83

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] 97

centralization

3

127

change

democratic 123

through class struggle 128

Chechen Republic

77

90

93-4

102

Chechens

111-12

Chiapas 115

Chicago School 57

Chile

126

China

27

54

61-2

117

Chubais, Anatoly 18

Chumachenko, Mikola 48

citizenship

32-4

37

civil rights 32-3

civil society

24

30

Clarke, Simon

23-4

29-30

Clause IV 42

Clinton, Bill 5

Cold War 12

colonial countries, and socialism 96

Committee for Peace in the Balkans 98

Commonwealth of Independent States 16

communism

achievements of 53-5

and ethnic cleansing 81-2

and nationalism 95-6

collapse of 55

collapse of 81

collapse of 97

communist myth 67-8

Communist International 96

Communist Party, of Russian Federation 6

competition-cooperation 70

consumption, collective v. individual 69-70

cooperatives

40-1

44

70

and capitalism 47

and capitalism 50

and efficiency 45

and exploitation 48-9

and exploitation 50

and external investment 49

and mixed economy 51

and state regulation 49-50

and utopia 50

and workers' control 46

and workers' control 48

and workers' control 50

and workers' control 60

bureaucratization 49.

Mondragon model 45-7

workers' interests 50-1

Corporate Agenda 2

corruption 31-2

cosmopolitanism 109

Crimea

83

Croatia/Croatians

81

Cuba 54

culture, and power 87

Czech Republic

61

Czechoslovakia

85

Dahl, Robert 117

Dayton Agreement 100

degeneration 29

democracy

29-32

and capitalism 39

and collective property 50

and contradictions 126

and dissolution of USSR 11

and globalization 37-8

and military service 34

and modernization 119-21

and nationalization 40

and oppression 86

and oppression 95

and reversible decisions 29

and reversible decisions 126

and socialism 7-8

and socialism 110

and socialism 119-20

and socialism 123

and socialism 126

and stability 123-4

and world market 124

bourgeois 26-7

bourgeois 29

bourgeois 31

free market 38-9

parliamentarianism 118-19

radical 37-8

democratization

38

of international relations 39

traditional institutions 38

deregulation 17

Derlug'yan, Georgiy 35

Development Councils [Britain] 42

discrimination 91

Dnestr Moldavian Republic 77

downsizing 3

Eastern Europe

bureaucracy 114

and federation 84-5

and federation 88-9

and privatization 57

creation of new states 81-2

Western goals 101-2

ecology, products harmful to 41

economy

globalization of 20-1

globalization of 23

internationalization of 13

national 22

socialization of 51

socialization of 73

socialization of 116

statization 117

Egypt 97

elites

and democracy 30-1

and democracy 35

global 5

global 20

global 127

Employee Stock Ownership Plans [ESOP]

44-5

48

Engels, F.

Engels, F 7

Engels, F 12.

Engels, F 13

Engels, F 80-1

Engels, F 86

Engels, F 115

Enlightenment

32

118

120

equality 124

Estonia

91

107-8

Estonian Department of Citizenship and Migration

33

ethnic cleansing

76

81-2

ethnic nationalism 91

European Union

common currency 28-9

deregulation 128

programmes 72

exploitation

48-9

50

fascist regimes, in Eastern Europe 81

federalism

86

88-9

financial crisis

25-6

39

62

financial institutions, international

1-2

control of 41

control of 55

influence of 15-16

influence of 25-6

influence of 28

lack of vision 21

republicanisation 43

Finland

92-3

Ford/Fordism

11

13

23

Foucault, M. 7

France

65

Franco-Prussian War 76

free market

38-9

Freeman, Alan 39

freon 41

Furman, Dmitriy 74

Gates, Bill 5

GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] 1

Gazprom 11

genocide 105

Georgia 87

Georgian-Abkhazian conflict 82

Georgiev, Filipp 59

German Central Bank 28

Germany

Gilly, Adolfo 102

global capitalism

4-5

17-19

global elite

20

global market

27-8

globalization

and anti-imperialism 97

and capitalism 11

and capitalism 12

and democracy 2

and democracy 21

and democracy 28

and national government 26

and national identification 75

and social democracy 23

and state economy 67

centre and periphery 22-4

information technology 3-4

information technology 12

information technology 13

labour resources 23

national security 34

reform 37

regulation 16

regulation 22-3

regulation 24

regulation 39.

relationship of class forces 12.

Notes:

Translated from Russian.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-140) and index.

ISBN:

9781849640633

1849640637

9780585426150

0585426155

OCLC:

923330250