The Global Police State
Already a member? Login.
'Compelling' – Noam Chomsky
'Gives powerful theoretical coherence to everyone's fear that fascism is being reborn' – Mike Davis
'For the last twenty years, William Robinson has been one of the most important analysts of global capitalism. He writes with urgency for a broad audience with an interest in mobilizing for a just world' – Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of From #BlackLives Matter to Black Liberation
As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'. Today, governments systematically exclude sections of their populations from society though heavy-handed policing. But it doesn't always go to plan. William I. Robinson exposes the nature and dynamics of this out-of-control system, arguing for the urgency of creating a movement capable of overthrowing it.
The global police state uses a variety of ingenious methods of control, including mass incarceration, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrants and refugees, and the repression of environmental activists. Movements have emerged to combat the increasing militarisation, surveillance and social cleansing; however many of them appeal to a moral sense of social justice rather than addressing its root – global capitalism.
Using shocking data which reveals how far capitalism has become a system of repression, Robinson argues that the emerging megacities of the world are becoming the battlegrounds where the excluded and the oppressed face off against the global police state.
Details
9781912837465
Originally published by Pluto Press