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Posts under ‘William I. Robinson’

Some contributions to thinking in the present moment

There’s a new wind  blowing across this globalized world, from Tunisia to Egypt to Greece to Spain to Occupy Wall Street. How do the theoretical investigations of this site relate to this, to what’s new and emerging?  This question of the emergence of novelty, of understanding this very changing world so as to help to [...]

Does contemporary capitalism tend toward fascism?

We’ve had posts and discussions here on the existence, configuration and functioning of a transnational capitalist class (TCC), mostly on a fairly theoretical plane (as befits khukuri’s  function). But, presuming we accept the TCC thesis, what are the effects on a more current-event and political level? Robinson’s essay sketches a series of theses along these [...]

Transnational capital and the current crisis

We’ve had a continuing interest on this site in questions raised by the transnationalization of capital, and particularly that of a transnational capitalist class (TCC), and we’ve reproduced pieces by some of the chief academic exponents and investigators of the TCC thesis, including Leslie Sklair, William K. Carroll, Jerry Harris, and William Robinson. In the [...]